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

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39. No body aches, no sore threat, no breathing problems?

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Lucky you!

Got all three at the moment.

I have been blaming seasonal allergies, spring here and lots of trees in full bloom.

Better drag out a COVID test kit, just to check.

But from a Biologist's view point, this virus is doing what most viruses do:

A virus appears out of the blue, either a pre-existing human virus that has mutated into something nasty, or one that has jumped the species barrier.
At the start it's highly effective at killing its host, but doesn't get much time to spread.
Less virulent varieties get more time to spread, so they take over.
The most effective virus at spreading to new hosts is a variety that leaves the host in some doubt he/she has it, so it gets lots of time to travel to other hosts.

Effectively, that virus becomes part of the background viral load we all have to cope with.

The influenza pandemic of last century went the same way. Went from killing lots to being a common background virus that only kills some of the immunocompromised members of our species.

I'm off to find a COVID test kit just to be sure.

EDIT: Negative test result.