39: How to find out if you have a cold, flu or COVID-19?
Q: How do I know if I have a cold, flu or COVID-19? 💁 Tracy: A cold is usually accompanied by such symptoms such as nasal congestion, running nose, sneezing, and coughing. Very few people will have fever more than a week. A flu will most likely cause a fever that lasts for about a week and is often accompanied by whole-body symptoms, such as muscle soreness, fatigue, and headache. COVID-19 symptoms include fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, other digestive and neurological problems. Patients may also complain of such symptoms as nasal congestion, running nose, diarrhea, sneezing, sore throat, and headache. In mild cases of COVID-19, patients only have low fever, fatigue, dry cough, etc. without pneumonia symptoms. Pneumonia may start after one week of mild symptoms, that usually shows up with shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing, dizziness or change of skin color caused by low blood oxygenation level. COVID-19 symptoms normally last longer and more severe,