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How Do You Know If It’s Flu or Covid-19?

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This might help, which I picked up from Medscape:

Presentations of COVID-19 have ranged from no or mild symptoms to severe illness and mortality. Symptoms may develop 2 days to 2 weeks after exposure to the virus.

Although symptoms may occur in various orders and individuals do not necessarily have any or all symptoms, a study of more than 55,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported that the most common order of symptoms was fever, cough, muscle pain, nausea/vomiting, and diarrhoea. This may help distinguish the presentation of COVID-19 from the presentation of influenza, which more commonly begins with cough and myalgia.

The following symptoms may indicate COVID-19: 

Other reported symptoms have included the following:

Risk factors for severe COVID-19, regardless of age, include the following: 

The following are underlying conditions that may represent an increased risk for severe COVID-19:

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