Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say

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38. I think I may have been exposed to someone with COVID within the past 5 days.

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So far, my only response(s) have been some brief sniffles and a runny nose, and maybe an elevated temperature (not even really a fever). My temp got to maybe 99.3, for most of a day, and then subsided. It was about the same time as the sniffles and runny nose. My temp is back down to around 98.2.

No body aches, no sore throat, no breathing problems. I had more of a response when I got vaccinated those times. Sore arm, slight fever (temp got to nearly 100), and body aches, for almost two days then.

Everything lasted about a day with this exposure, and then gone. Barely anything.

I credit my multiple vaccinations for helping greatly with this extremely muted response. I was doubly vaccinated, first with Moderna, and then about 4 months later, with Pfizer. There were extras left over and it seems some didn't want it. So, I figured, what the heck, might as well get vaccinated again, instead of those vials going to waste in some bin. With these, once they are taken out of the "cooler", they must be used the same day, or else be disposed (can't 'refreeze' or re-refrigerate). I waited until late in the day, for others to get theirs first, and then I got mine.

Then I got a booster last year. Right at the same time I got my flu shot. Early November. They were free.

I'll be getting another booster, along with the flu shot, next month. Total cost will be at most $20 for both, if not free.