It shows fever is a symptom. Even if I ask the question of what is the most common symptoms it still shows fever. Did Covid mutate again and now fever is one of the most common symptoms?
Fever isn’t a defining symptom of Covid. Initially, it was believed that anyone with an active infection would have a fever. That turned out to be wrong, and it led to a lot of people being denied tests and treatment in the early phase of the pandemic because they had Covid byt (I was one of them). People would go out in public with other symptoms because they assumed the absence of a fever meant it definitely wasn’t Covid. So that might be the change in understanding you’ve heard about.
Fever is still a common symptom of Covid. If you have a fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of smell or taste, and/or gastrointestinal symptoms, you may have Covid and you should act as though you are infectious.
Tests are widely available and inexpensive. It doesn’t hurt to give yourself a test, or see a doctor if you think you might have Covid.
The US is currently giving away free test kits to all Americans, shipping is also free so this will only cost you your time.
They allow 4 per household and the tests do expire, but I feel everyone should get these to have on hand just in case they believe they have symptoms.
nice PSA (seriously)
Physical exhaustion is the only thing I feel confident is probably highly common.
There was a clarification that people were still contagious even without a fever and that not everyone who gets covid also has a fever or even any symptoms at all. That would be to address the people who were going to public events because they didn’t have a fever or other symptoms.
Anyone can be a carrier. Which is why distancing and masking was important for everyone, in that order. That we didn’t do very well. So surprise, Covid everywhere.
I was just listening to TWIV, and they discussed that there was no single symptom, nor set of symptoms that a clinician could use to rule in or rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection. Testing is key to differentiation between upper respiratory infections.
Most likely it was in TWIV 1178 (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1178/), but might have been in 1179.
Dunno. The answer to your actual question is probably just “get an antigen test” though.
All the symptoms I’ve ever seen were essentially the same as a flu or cold, which is one of the reasons it sucks so bad; you might think it’s something less severe than it actually is unless you had some other issue that made it worse.
I don’t think I had a fever either time I had COVID (Septembers 2023 and '24), though to be fair I also never took my temp at the time so it could’ve just been low enough to not really notice. The telltale sign for me each time was a sore throat.
I ha no symptoms apart from dizziness and weird throbbing feeling in my skull and neck.
I have these right now.for.the first time in a long time, but so far test is neg.
