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== Your Health: Personal and Home == | == Your Health: Personal and Home == | ||
− | + | ==== Symptoms ==== | |
− | Fever | + | # Fever |
+ | # Dry cough | ||
+ | # Shortness of breath. | ||
+ | * Fever early on is a distinguishing symptom. Dry coughs follow in cases that become moderate or severe. | ||
+ | Shortness of breath is a telltale and dangerous development distinguishing COVID-19 from influenza or a cold. | ||
− | * Note potential early warning symptom is loss of sense of smell: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-symptoms-taste-smell-loss-ear-nose-throat-a9416226.html Coronavirus: New symptom of virus could be loss of taste and smell, top UK doctor says] | + | * '''Note''' potential early warning symptom is loss of sense of smell: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-symptoms-taste-smell-loss-ear-nose-throat-a9416226.html Coronavirus: New symptom of virus could be loss of taste and smell, top UK doctor says] |
− | + | ==== What to do ==== | |
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[https://elemental.medium.com/how-to-tell-if-you-have-the-flu-coronavirus-or-something-else-30c1c82cc50f How to tell if you have flu, coronavirus or something else] | [https://elemental.medium.com/how-to-tell-if-you-have-the-flu-coronavirus-or-something-else-30c1c82cc50f How to tell if you have flu, coronavirus or something else] |
Revision as of 09:33, 22 March 2020
Your Health: Personal and Home
Symptoms
- Fever
- Dry cough
- Shortness of breath.
- Fever early on is a distinguishing symptom. Dry coughs follow in cases that become moderate or severe.
Shortness of breath is a telltale and dangerous development distinguishing COVID-19 from influenza or a cold.
- Note potential early warning symptom is loss of sense of smell: Coronavirus: New symptom of virus could be loss of taste and smell, top UK doctor says
What to do
How to tell if you have flu, coronavirus or something else
How to properly care for a sick person at home