Just because a COVID symptom is common, it does not mean that it will reveal itself early on. In fact, a new study shows that some of the symptoms we most strongly associate with the virus do not tend to appear as its first signs. The study, conducted by researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine in collaboration with Survivor Corps, highlights the wide range of early symptoms that patients experience in the first days of infection, and may completely change if and how you identify COVID from the start. And to recognize COVID’s emergency symptoms, make sure you have one of these COVID symptoms, CDC says to call 911.
The team, led by Natalie Lambert, PhD, launched in-depth research investigating the experiences of COVID survivors with the coronavirus, with the aim of identifying which symptoms tend to present themselves early in the course of the disease. They suspected that symptoms such as fever and chills, although common in COVID in general, were weak indicators of early infection – a problem mainly because doctors’ offices, airlines and other companies depend on temperature checks for safe admission.
To collect their data, the team gathered 3,905 respondents who reported having symptomatic cases of COVID-19. As the study reports, participants answered a series of questions about their “medical history, underlying medical conditions, demographic information, the timing and severity of the symptoms they experienced, the impact of COVID-19 on their health and mental well-being and his experiences of seeking medical treatment for the health impacts of COVID-19. “
Specifically, the team recorded the number and percentage of respondents who reported each symptom during their 10-day window of infection. “Using these data points, we calculated how many times each symptom was reported to occur within a 10-day window of the participants’ symptom onset (the period when they were most likely to be contagious),” explained his methodology researchers. . This helped researchers to identify which symptoms could serve as common initial indicators of coronavirus in the general population.
The results dispel some common beliefs about what symptoms people should notice from the start. For example, the researchers found that while 38.7 percent of respondents reported having a fever or chills at some point in their illness, only 7.66 percent reported these symptoms in the first 10 days of infection.
It just shows that 1 The symptom is the key to diagnosis when experiences vary widely and some of the symptoms most closely associated with the virus will not necessarily help you identify a case. Read the full list of the first symptoms of COVID classified by the percentage of patients who reported experiencing them in the first 10 days, and for more information on how to detect coronavirus, check out This strange symptom may be the only sign that you have COVID, says the study.
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11
Muscle or body aches
6.33 percent
10
Difficulty concentrating or focusing
6.61 percent
9
Abdominal pain
6.63 percent
8
Diarrhea
7.14 percent
7
Fever or chills
7.66 percent
6
Altered sense of taste
7.71 percent
5
Inability to exercise or be active
8.02 percent
4
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
8.73 percent
3
Headache
9.48 percent
two
Cough
10.65 percent
1
Fatigue
14.44 percent
And for more information on how to decipher your symptoms, see This is how to know if your cough is COVID, doctors say.