Professor Says If You Get These Cold-Like Symptoms You Should "Assume It's COVID"

Several piazza around the world are in the thick of a COVID wave , partlyfueled by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant , which makes up around 78 percentage of face in the USaccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

As we ’ve learn over the last few long time , symptom can vary with dissimilar wave as the computer virus mutates . It can be in particular difficult at the moment to distinguish it from colds and other respiratory unwellness without getting a examination . However , according to the promontory of theZOE wellness study , there are several symptom that – if you have them – you may reasonably much take over that you have COVID while you await your test .

" Now something else interesting we ’ve forgotten about is multitude enounce they ’ve got summertime colds . ' Oh , I ’ve got a summertime stale , it does n’t palpate like COVID , I ’m fine ' , " ZOE question Tim Spectorsaid in a YouTube update .

" You are twice as likely –   if you have any dusty - like symptom –   to have COVID rather than any other type of computer virus , and we have n’t really seen this ever before . It ’s important to realize that and assume you ’ve belike get COVID . "

" taste and get a test if you could . If you ca n’t , or – as we ’ve been hearing anecdotes – if your run have been negative in the first few days , it ’s probably respectable to adopt you ’ve got it and stay away from other people . "

On Twitter , he explain that COVID symptom reported to the ZOE App are similar to those of colds , but that tiredness and sore throats are more common so it ’s best to take that these could designate COVID , adding " hopefully this wave will be over presently . "

These symptoms are broadly interchangeable to the last major update from the study on the Omicron variant , back in December .

" Data released on 16 December by the COVID symptom Study 1 , take to the woods by the health science companionship ZOE and King ’s College London , show that the top five symptoms reported in the app for Omicron contagion were fluid nose , headache , fatigue ( either meek or severe ) , sneezing , and sore pharynx , " a newspaper publisher on the studypublished in the BMJ read .

" This initial analysis was based on positive cases in London , which was selected because of its higher prevalence of omicron than in other persona of the UK . "