“The common cold and the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 can be determined through the symptoms experienced by patients.”
What Vera Files found
While the common cold and COVID-19 have many similar signs and symptoms, health experts other than Ong said only genome sequencing could determine with certainty whether someone has the Omicron or the Delta variant.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Willie Ong made this claim around 10 January 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 21 January 2022, 11 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Willie Ong has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/7LW3-K5HP
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