Becker's Healthcare June 28, 2024
Gone are the days of hallmark COVID-19 symptoms. While loss of taste and smell, and persistent cough were once tell-tale signs of the respiratory infection, symptoms today vary widely, with tests being the only sure-fire way to confirm a diagnosis, physicians told NBC News in a June 27 report.
“Every week, we test someone for COVID who I didn’t think had it who tests positive,” Steven Furr, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians and family physician in Jackson, Ala., told the news outlet. “Then we have others who I’m pretty sure have COVID who test negative … It’s really hard to separate COVID from any other respiratory illness right now.”
Physicians say patients who end...
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