Delta variant symptoms differ from original COVID-19 strand

VARIANT AS IT CONTINUES TOSPREAD.

SOAR F, WE KNOW ITMORE CONTAGIOUS, AND CAN CSEAUMORE SEVERE ILLNESS.UT BHEALTH EXPERTS ARE LEARNINGTHE INITIAL SYMPTOMS ARE ALSODIFFERENT.

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RAY,THOSE EXPERTS ARE CONCNEDERSOME PEOPLE ARE WALKING AROUNDAND DON'T REALIZE THEY HAVETHE VIRUS?EARLY ON IN THE PANDEMIC, THEMOST COMMON COVID-19 SYMPTOMWAS THE LOSS OF TAS ATESMELL.

BUT WITH THIS DELTAVARIANTLESS PEOPLE ARE REPORTINGTHOSE SYMPTOMS AND ONES THATARE MORSE IMILAR TO A COLD.Shortness of breath, fatigueand a cough.

Those aretypically signs you arestarting to get sick fromCOVID-19 But now wi tthhedelta variant the symptoms arebecoming harder to detect.2:15“A majority of thesecases start with sniffles, asore throat.

Dr. Gabe Kelen isthe director of emergencymedicine at Johns Hopkins.

Hesays the initial symptoms fromthe original COVID-19 strandwe sreimilar to the flu but hesays symptoms from thoseinfected with the deltavariant are more like a summercold.

2:24“And even amonghealthcare workers we knowmany thought this is just asummer cold, this is n totway covid is really suppose topresent and it ultimatelyturned out they had covid” InMaryland, nearly all new casesof COVID-19 are from the deltavariant.

And Dr. Kelen saysthe confusing symptoms couldlead to people spreading thevirus without them evenknowing.

He says itimportant to get tested evenif you think what you haveisjust a cold.

8:40 If you vesympts , omdo not assume thatthis is a summer cold.

Even ifyoustrong, what you want to do ismake sure you are notspreading covid to somebodyelse who is going to have avery bad outcome.

But, Dr.Kelen says the bottomline isto get the vaccine, which ISHIGHLY effective against thedelta variant.

He says itthe best way to not onlyprotect yourself, but thepeople around you.

137 :2not about only you.

You caninfect someone else and llkithem unknowingly.

You arespreading viral bullets if youare infected and you may noteven know it.“And Dr. Kelen says the deltavariant can still causesymptoms like shortnessbreath and a fever which iswhy itsooner rather than later.

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