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Originally Posted by Johnhitbox
The most common#symptoms of COVID-19#are pretty much what you'd expect from a respiratory disease: fever,#persistent cough, fatigue, and#muscle pain.#
Are we sure they aren't sick with something else?
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It's this Brazil variant. It seems to be different.
The group that I know that came down with Covid recently in Whistler - where that variant is prevalent - had fevers, headaches, fatigue, loss of smell, but curiously no coughs.
I'd speculate that the lack of a cough may be a reason it transmits more easily, as people think it's likely something else (like a bad sleep or hangover) whereas a cough would give the game away early on.
Everyone from the group I know has recovered now (except for one person to whom it was passed fairly recently), but none had a symptom-free experience with it. (I should add that BC doesn't seem to tell the average Joe whether they had a variant or not, but the timing/location of their infections, along with the symptoms, strongly implicates the Brazil variant IMO).