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Revision as of 08:34, 28 March 2020
Your Health: Personal and Home
Symptoms
How to tell if you have flu, coronavirus or something else
- Fever - Fever early on is a distinguishing symptom.
- Dry cough - Dry coughs follow in cases that become moderate or severe.
- Shortness of breath - 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
- additional citation: https://www.entuk.org/loss-sense-smell-marker-covid-19-infection
What to do
- How to properly care for a sick person at home
- CDC Guidelines for Cleaning and Disinfection
- How Soap Kills Coronavirus
- How to disinfect your phone
- Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired - we needed to conserve the N95/respirator style for medical workers, but cloth masks are better than nothing. -
