COVID-19 Update: Recent Developments Regarding the Infectious Disease
WHO says COVID-19 can be airborne indoors. It explained that asymptomatic individuals might spread the virus.
Even if it was only in December last year, it has only been months since the world battled the fatal COVID-19.
And, as scientists enthusiastically work around the clock to solve the mysteries behind this fatal disease, they have obtained interesting perceptions into the viruses and the illness it resulted in, which is, as mentioned, COVID-19.
According to Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert, they know more now about how the virus makes people ill. Fever, cough, and shortness of breath are three of the critical indicators that one is likely to have COVID-19.
Nevertheless, health experts now know too, that there are other symptoms not known to many, which signal contagion.
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New Developments about COVID-19 Symptoms
Schaffner also said that they have learned about the so-called "COVID-19 toes, "The loss of smell and taste."
He added they have learned the infectious disease also leads to delirium although, "We are not completely sure how it" impacts the chief nervous system yet. However, it is unclear that some of the patients are experiencing delirium.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that any or all indications take place from two to 14 days following exposure to COVID-19.
However, a lot of doctors have found that the majority of the patients, according to Schaffner, will show indications of the disease within just one week.
Atypical Symptoms
Since new, more infrequent symptoms keep on popping up since more and more people contract COVID-19, what was earlier mentioned was not a comprehensive list.
One of the uncommon symptoms the CDC recently added to the list is the loss of taste and smell. This is an atypical symptom to a list of significant indications that one may have the illness. It can take place minus the advanced warning.
Loss of smell, also called "anosmia," seems to be more predominant in moderate or mild COVID-19 and inclines to appear at the onset of the illness. According to medical experts, "anosmia" may even be among the first indications that one is ill.
This symptom has been found in patients that eventually test positive for COVID-19 with no other symptoms. This was according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Furthermore, any respiratory disease like flu will momentarily impact taste and smell, and in extraordinary conditions, the loss can be permanent.
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COVID-19, now Airborne?
Reports came out early this week that more than 200 scientists claimed, there is evidence that the pandemic, "in tinier particles in the hair," can possibly infect people.
In relation to this, they have called out the World Health Organization to make some changes with their previous recommendations about COVID-19.
WHO, for its part, yesterday said, the virus could be airborne indoors. In addition, the organization explained that asymptomatic individuals might possibly spread the virus.
COVID-19, which has now infected 12.6 million and killed 560,000 worldwide, may stay in the air indoors with crowded areas and spread from one person to another. WHO announced this on Thursday.
Lastly, WHO described too, this kind of transmission as questionable, and more often than not, a problem in most medical procedures; nevertheless, growing evidence suggests this process may be essential in the spread of the virus.
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