5 most common symptoms of COVID-19 now include headache, runny nose and sneezing: study

A new study on COVID-19 has found that the virus’s most common symptoms were milder conditions than initially thought and now include headaches, runny nose and sneezing.

The public has been urged to watch for fever, cough, and loss of smell and taste as likely symptoms of COVID-19. However, researchers from the Zoe Covid Symptom Study UK based discovered that the widely known symptoms are not the most common that appear in new cases today.

The study was conducted using an app that allowed the public to enter their symptoms so that scientists could analyze the data. Based on the results, the symptoms differ significantly depending on whether or not the patient received a vaccine and how many doses he received.

According to the study, symptoms often experienced by unvaccinated people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 included headache, sore throat and runny nose, CNBC reported.

“Loss of smell comes in at number 9 and shortness of breath comes way down the list at number 30, indicating that previously recorded symptoms change as variants of the virus evolve,” the study noted.

People who have previously been fully vaccinated against SARS-COV-2 but tested positive for the virus have often suffered from headaches, runny nose and sneezing.

Symptoms of COVID-19 reported by the Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention, as a persistent cough, fever, and shortness of breath, fell to the bottom of the list at eight, 12, and 29 respectively.

“A persistent cough now ranks at number 8 if you’ve received two doses of the vaccine, so it’s no longer the primary indicator of having COVID,” the researchers said.

For people who only received a single injection of the COVID-19 vaccine, symptoms listed included headache, runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, and persistent cough.

In recent weeks, an increase in COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant has been recorded in several locations, including the United Kingdom and the United States. The variant, which was first identified in India, now accounts for 51.7% of all new coronavirus cases reported. in the United States in the two weeks that ended July 3, according to new estimates of the CDC.

COVID-19 cases caused by the most contagious variant also see a slight increase in states with low vaccination rates, including Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Connecticut.

A patient infected with COVID-19 lies in a bed in the intensive care unit of Saint-Camille hospital, in Bry-Sur-Marne, east of Paris. Photo: AFP / Anne-Christine POUJOULAT