News reports give somewhat mixed accounts of the typical symptoms, so I thought it would be useful to call attention to this from an earlier post about a systematic study of thousands of patients in China:
The most common symptoms are fever (88%) and dry cough (68%). Exhaustion (38%), expectoration of mucus when coughing (33%), shortness of breath (18%), sore throat (14%), headaches (14%), muscle aches (14%), chills (11%) are also common. Less frequent are nausea and vomiting (5%), stuffy nose (5%) and diarrhoea (4%). Running nose is not a symptom of Covid.
Two observations: 1 out of about 8 infected patients may not be getting any fever. And many classic flu/fever symptoms (like aches and chills) are occurring only in a minority of patients. It's clear that fever and dry cough are the most common markers, but note that a third of patients do not have dry cough.
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