Doctors who treat Covid describe the ways the illness has gotten milder and shifted over time to mostly affect the upper respiratory tract.
Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish Covid from allergies or the common cold, even as hospitalizations tick up.
The illness’ past hallmarks, such as a dry cough or the loss of sense of taste or smell, have become less common. Instead, doctors are observing milder disease, mostly concentrated in the upper respiratory tract.
“It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat,” said Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City.
The sore throat usually arrives first, he said, then congestion.
Scheduled next boost for next week.
I finally caught it earlier this year. Thanks to vax, it was similar to a cold / flu. Was mostly better after a few days.
Medical science is awesome. I couldn’t be happier about how it turned out. What a relief.
New vax wasnt approved on yet I thought…
Approved in the US and OZ that I’ve seen. Certainly others by now.
The EMA recommeded it recently. I think that has to filter down into member states now. So for the EU next week would probably be too soon. For Switzerland it’s not approved yet. But maybe in other non-EU countries somewhere?
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Likely. I know folks who got it over the weekend.
I don’t think they’re even doing boosters where I live, at least not for general population
That’s not how things work, especially with the covid vaccination. People that are vaccinated still get very sick and die from covid. Just because you got mild symptoms doesn’t mean it was because of the vaccination. I mean this article is literally about covid now being essentially the basic cold / flu, vaccination or not.
Could the vaccination have helped? Sure. Could it also have not done a thing? Also sure.
Apologies for typos, I’ve been celebrating a life change with friends.
I don’t usually reply so late, but been busy.
Are you telling me not to be grateful for modern medicine? I wasn’t so sick. Was it the vax? I don’t know. But I sure fucking know I am a lot less afraid because I’m vaxxed.
I’m not saying that at all, I’m just saying that the fact that you still caught covid and got sick isn’t really a selling point of the vaccine working.
What other vaccines are there out there where you can still catch, get sick, and die from the thing you got vaccinated 4+ times against?
I got vaxxed and rather than being hospitalized, I felt like I had a common cold with a fever. Vaccination doesn’t promise you won’t get it. It makes it less likely. And if you get it, it makes it less severe.
It might. Might.
I see that you’re divorced from reality or arguing in bad faith, so I’m done. It must be awesome being smarter than the collective of very smart people who conduct this sort of research. Have a nice day.
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The covid vaccination isn’t like any that have come before it. It’s the first of its kind. It’s experimental. It doesn’t stop infection, it doesn’t stop the spread, and it doesn’t stop people dying. You can get vaccinated and get covid and get just as sick as if you weren’t vaccinated.
All I’m saying is that you can’t go “I got it and it was mild thanks to the vaccine” when the overwhelming majority of covid cases even among unvaccinated people are mild.