(NEXSTAR) – Coronavirus levels are rising again “Very high” in some US states The country experiences The summer wave of COVID-19 Infection. For many Americans, it has been more than six months since a booster shot or recent infection, putting them at increased risk of reinfection.
If a person is reinfected, the symptoms they feel this time may be different.
“Not all COVID infections present with the same symptoms,” Dr. Joseph Cavaza, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the Cleveland Clinic, said recently. The New York Times.
The virus is constantly evolving, with new mutants and submutants appearing regularly. Your body is also changing and may respond differently to the virus depending on other health factors.
What’s more, once you’ve been infected with COVID-19 once, your response may be different and even stronger the second and third time around: Your body’s immune response kicks in quickly, and you may feel symptoms like a fever before you test positive, infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong told The New York Times.
Once-common symptoms, such as loss of taste and smell, are now much more rarely reported in 2024. COVID is now often confused with the common cold, as it has many overlapping symptoms.
The most common recent symptoms of COVID-19 infection are: Mayo ClinicAccording to Dr. Daniel DeSimone of the University of California, San Antonio, the main symptoms are stuffy or runny nose, headache, sore throat, and cough, which are reported by more than half of patients with COVID symptoms.
Other typical symptoms include chills, fever, body aches, fatigue, chest pain, changes in smell, and confusion (especially in older patients).
Diarrhea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal problems are more common with the current variants than they were earlier in the pandemic, and evidence of these symptoms is growing. Gastrointestinal problems – but until recently it has been overlooked.
In people who have been vaccinated, symptoms are generally milder and less severe.
