Sneezing isn't a recognized symptom of Covid-19, is it?
Sneezing isn't a recognized symptom of Covid-19, is it?
"I'm planning to live forever. So far, that's working perfectly." Steven Wright
Is that a joke? There are many causes of a sneeze and one is being infected.
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Originally Posted by Ken G
No, it most certainly wasn’t a joke. Did it look like I was joking? And I thought I made clear that I know there are other causes for sneezing and headaches, they aren’t terribly uncommon for me and I wasn’t *that* concerned. The entire point of the post is that things that wouldn’t normally concern me at all raise questions now and I’m curious how common that kind of reaction is for others during the pandemic.
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Yes, I expect it will be like that for me until vaccination time - not a major worry but an ongoing concern. I have managed to avoid it so far, (unless I had it with no or minimal symptoms) now the infection rate is the highest ever, and I’m going to be annoyed if I still manage to get it after avoiding it this long.
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A: "Things that are equal to the same are equal to each other"
B: "The two sides of this triangle are things that are equal to the same"
C: "If A and B are true, Z must be true"
D: "If A and B and C are true, Z must be true"
E: "If A and B and C and D are true, Z must be true"
Therefore, Z: "The two sides of this triangle are equal to each other"
I don't want to feed anyone's hypochondria (or hypochondria-by-proxy), but the big data from the King's College COVID Symptom Study app has crunched down into six symptom clusters associated with Covid
Interestingly, they also have records of a rash in 8% of cases. But sneezing is notably absent.1 (‘flu-like’ with no fever): Headache, loss of smell, muscle pains, cough, sore throat, chest pain, no fever.
2 (‘flu-like’ with fever): Headache, loss of smell, cough, sore throat, hoarseness, fever, loss of appetite.
3 (gastrointestinal): Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, diarrhea, sore throat, chest pain, no cough.
4 (severe level one, fatigue): Headache, loss of smell, cough, fever, hoarseness, chest pain, fatigue.
5 (severe level two, confusion): Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain.
6 (severe level three, abdominal and respiratory): Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain.
Grant Hutchison
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G
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My sister said she needs a T-shirt that says "Relax, it's just allergies".
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Has anyone here been vaccinated? I'm in a low-priority category so my turn is likely many months away.
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Based on the Georgia department of Health website my wife and I are in group 1-B; 65 and older with comorbidities. So maybe March for us, at the earliest, or even April.
Here’s the 65-page rollout plan. Your state will no doubt be different, but probably similar.
https://dph.georgia.gov/document/doc...-plan/download
One thing about sneezing: it isn’t COVID related, but an infected person could still sneeze for other reasons, say allergies, and spread the virus that way.
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I think I remember sneezing before getting any kind of sickness. Hard to say if I am all that accurate. Go-go hypochondria mode!
Solfe
The logic of people is simply amazing. Many people ignore the mask regime, wear masks as they please, just not as it should be according to sanitary standards, but at the same time they look for the root of the problem in people who sneeze or cough. But in order to reduce the chance of getting an infectious dose of the virus, it is enough to observe the mask regime and a distance of 1.5 meters. How many adhere to these recommendations?
I honestly doubt logic enters into the thinking process of many such individuals. Too many people have reacted to an avalanche of chaotic events by becoming creatures of pure id, lashing out irrationally. Mask wearing becomes a symbol of their frustration, not a basic safety measure.
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I was just hearing there is now testing going on in California to see if we have the fast spreading COVID-19 variant. On one hand, that seemed an obvious possibility to me, since I thought this state was taking it pretty seriously from the start, then “Boom!” goes an explosion of cases. On the other hand, wouldn’t it be possible to pretty quickly confirm or reject that it’s common enough here to substantially increase number of cases? I would have thought that would have already been tested for.
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No, that’s established. A case was found in Colorado and it appears to be from community spread:
https://apnews.com/article/public-he...f34f625d6a37f8
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"I'm planning to live forever. So far, that's working perfectly." Steven Wright
Having the tests available in Colorado doesn't mean having the tests available in California. Maybe Cali only recently got that capacity.
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I’d be very curious why they wouldn’t. California has a lot of state and private labs. I’m not sure, but I think more than any other state, simply because of population and size of the economy.
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It's called genomic surveillance. You take samples that have tested positive for Covid (by picking up short sequences of SARS-CoV-2 RNA that are "preserved"--that is, tend not to vary from strain to strain) and then sequence the entire genome. That requires some infrastructure, either in terms of getting samples to the sequencer quickly, or storing sample at a temperature that prevents the RNA degrading, so you can sequence later.
The UK has been routinely sequencing about 10% of all positive Covid samples, which is far more than most places. (Denmark, I think, manages 20%, but with a tenth of the population.) Once the UK identified a new genome spreading rapidly, other countries have started targeting areas with rapid spread, or taking snapshots from their stored samples. Germany discovered the same genome in a stored sample dating from November; California, I imagine, is targeting areas with the most rapid growth in case numbers.
So this is about what people are routinely doing, versus what they can do, in a targeted way, when a new problem arises.
Grant Hutchison