“The first 8 Omicron symptoms — including lower back pain, night sweats and body aches, and loss of appetite — can appear as quickly as 48 hours after being infected.”
What Vera Files found
The ZOE COVID Study team, which was cited by the graphic, said in an email to VERA Files Fact Check that it had not done the analysis on symptoms in the first 48 hours of infection. It added that it had “never” said lower back pain, night sweats and body aches, and loss of appetite were top symptoms of Omicron.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Anthony "Tony" Leachon made this claim around 3 January 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 7 January 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/7QM7-5FT5
Links recorded by Vera Files. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.