No matter what some people are saying for whatever reason, COVID-19 is not over with, and in Great Britain, where more than 166,000 people have reportedly died of COVID-19 during the ongoing pandemic, they are adding to their list of official symptoms. By comparison, some 81,867,963 cases have been reported in the US as of Monday night, with 1,008,679 resultant deaths.
Infection rates are rising in the United Kingdom; here, they are dropping after the post-holiday spike earlier this year. But still, this seems to be a virus we will be dealing with for a long time. Gone are the predictions that "it'll go away like a miracle as soon as it warms up" in April, 2020.
So, still, it's good to be vaccinated and boosted and to maintain caution about one's surroundings and associates.
The British list now includes these symptoms:
- A high temperature or shivering (chills) — a high temperature means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature).
- A new, continuous cough — this means coughing a lot for more than an hour or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours.
- A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste.
- Shortness of breath.
- Feeling tired or exhausted.
- An aching body.
- A headache.
- A sore throat.
- A blocked or runny nose.
- Loss of appetite.
- Diarrhea
- Feeling sick or being sick.
“The symptoms are very similar to symptoms of other illnesses, such as colds and flu,” the new NSA advisory notes.
It's starting to remind me of one of those historical sidelights about some soldier being killed by a bullet on the day of an armistice. It happened to a man from Baltimore. About that, more tomorrow. But for now, be sure to be wise, and don't take a chance on being that last statistic.
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