Doctors who treat Covid describe the ways the illness has gotten milder and shifted over time to mostly affect the upper respiratory tract.
Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish Covid from allergies or the common cold, even as hospitalizations tick up.
The illness’ past hallmarks, such as a dry cough or the loss of sense of taste or smell, have become less common. Instead, doctors are observing milder disease, mostly concentrated in the upper respiratory tract.
“It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat,” said Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City.
The sore throat usually arrives first, he said, then congestion.
It might. Might.
I see that you’re divorced from reality or arguing in bad faith, so I’m done. It must be awesome being smarter than the collective of very smart people who conduct this sort of research. Have a nice day.
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The covid vaccination isn’t like any that have come before it. It’s the first of its kind. It’s experimental. It doesn’t stop infection, it doesn’t stop the spread, and it doesn’t stop people dying. You can get vaccinated and get covid and get just as sick as if you weren’t vaccinated.
All I’m saying is that you can’t go “I got it and it was mild thanks to the vaccine” when the overwhelming majority of covid cases even among unvaccinated people are mild.