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What are the symptoms of COVID-19?
Some people infected with the virus have no symptoms. When the virus does cause symptoms, common ones include dry cough, fatigue, low-grade fever, body aches, nasal congestion, and sore throat. However, COVID-19 can occasionally cause more severe symptoms like high fever, severe cough, and shortness of breath, which often indicates pneumonia.
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Increasing evidence suggests that a lost sense of smell, known medically as anosmia, may be a symptom of COVID-19. This is not surprising, because viral infections are a leading cause of loss of sense of smell, and COVID-19 is a caused by a virus.
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The only symptom I’m worried about is dying.
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OK let me check and see if that is part of it.
Yup it says that is part of life
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This virus is insidious, because you may acquire it on say March 1, and no symptoms develop until March 7. And the symptoms are uniquely diverse. Some get a fever and cough. Somehave symptoms that feels like a mild cold. The loss of taste or smell is unlike any other virus, and unlike others.
Besides more testing and equipment, a general call for everyone to wear masks in public should be made. it's common in parts of Asia and India because of bad pollution, so I don't think Americans would feel silly wearing a mask.
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OK, I'll wear a mask. But I'm going Full Monty on everything else. I'll
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Depends on where you put that mask....
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This is in the link provided
How deadly is COVID-19?
The answer depends on whether you're looking at the fatality rate (the risk of death among those who are infected) or the total number of deaths. So far, influenza has caused far more total deaths this flu season, both in the US and worldwide, than COVID-19. This is why you may have heard it said that the flu is a bigger threat.
Regarding the fatality rate, it appears that the risk of death with the pandemic coronavirus infection (commonly estimated at about 1%) is far less than it was for SARS (approximately 11%) and MERS (about 35%), but will likely be higher than the risk from seasonal flu (which averages about 0.1%). We will have a more accurate estimate of fatality rate for this coronavirus infection once testing becomes more available.
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