Has the delta variant or the coronavirus vaccine changed how patients feel or how sick they're getting? Here's what to know.
The most common COVID-19 symptoms may have changed slightly since the emergence of variants and vaccines over the past several months.
More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, experts have unraveled so many mysteries about how to treat the virus and prevent it. But at the same time, SARS-CoV-2 is always changing as new variants emerge. And accordingly, the ways in which the virus affects people seem to be shifting as well. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the most common COVID-19 symptoms doctors are seeing right now, and how vaccines and variants fit into this picture.The most common symptoms — such as cough, fever, and loss of taste and smell — are all still pretty much the same.included a cough , shortness of breath, a fever of 100 degrees or higher, and the sudden loss of taste and smell.
Those, however, are by no means the only frequent symptoms. People also report everything from headaches to diarrhea, all of which are listed on theFor the most part, that list of the most common symptoms hasn’t really changed. “The symptoms are really the same as before. It’s the headache, cough, fatigue, runny nose, fever — those kind of generalized flu-like symptoms,” said Jonathan Leizman, chief medical officer of Premise Health, a health care company headquartered in Tennessee.
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