This new coronavirus breakthrough is key to helping determine if you’re infected

[Chris Smith]

• A new study provides a key detail surrounding coronavirus symptoms, the likely order in which COVID-19 signs appear in infected patients.
• The timeline of COVID-19 symptoms could help patients better educate themselves and seek medical care earlier than they might have otherwise, so they can avoid spreading the disease.
• Knowing the order in which coronavirus symptoms typically present could also be very useful for healthcare workers, who would be able to better distinguish COVID-19 patients from others.

One of the things that make is so difficult to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic is COVID-19's symptomatology. The incubation period can last from a few days to two weeks, so you might not start showing the first signs of infection until long after you caught the disease. That is if you experience any symptoms at all. Many people get the virus but don't develop signs that would warn them something isn't right and that testing, isolation, and treatment might be necessary. If you do experience symptoms, they won't be enough to definitively diagnose your illness as COVID-19 without a PCR test. The novel coronavirus does induce one particular symptom that's seen as clear evidence of infection with the novel coronavirus, and that's the sudden loss of smell and taste. The problem is that not all the people who get infected experience this telltale sign.

While symptoms may not be enough to diagnose COVID-19 correctly, knowing what the most likely coronavirus signs are, and the order in which they appear, could be a helpful tool for patients and doctors alike. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, a team of researchers analyzed thousands of COVID-19 cases and figured out the likeliest order of COVID-19 symptoms.

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