{"id":244,"date":"2020-09-14T03:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atozblogg.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:17:55","slug":"covid-19-symptoms-usually-show-up-in-this-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atozblogg.com\/covid-19-symptoms-usually-show-up-in-this-order\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Symptoms Usually Show Up in This Order"},"content":{"rendered":"
The symptoms of COVID-19, including fever and cough, are frustratingly similar to a host of other common diseases, including the seasonal flu.<\/p>\n
With flu season around the corner, how can you tell if a fever is the flu or COVID-19? A\u00a0new study\u00a0has shed light on how COVID-19 symptoms present, which may help people trying to figure out if their cough is just a cough or something worse.<\/p>\n
The research from the University of Southern California (USC) was able to determine that COVID-19 symptoms often start in a certain order.<\/p>\n
This discovery might help people with COVID-19 self-isolate and get treatment sooner, which could significantly improve patient outcomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis order is especially important to know when we have overlapping cycles of illnesses like the flu that coincide with infections of COVID-19,\u201d said\u00a0Peter Kuhn, PhD, one of the study authors and professor of medicine, biomedical engineering, and aerospace and mechanical engineering at USC. \u201cDoctors can determine what steps to take to care for the patient, and they may prevent the patient\u2019s condition from worsening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
To predict the order of symptoms, researchers analyzed rates of symptom incidence collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) for over 55,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in China. They also looked at a data set of almost 1,100 cases collected between December and January by the China Medical Treatment Expert Group for COVID-19 and provided by the National Health Commission of China.<\/p>\n
To compare the order of COVID-19 symptoms to influenza, the researchers analyzed data from over 2,000 COVID-19 cases in North America, Europe, and the Southern Hemisphere reported to health authorities between 1994 and 1998.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe order of the symptoms matter,\u201d said Joseph Larsen, lead study author and USC Dornsife doctoral candidate. \u201cKnowing that each illness progresses differently means that doctors can identify sooner whether someone likely has COVID-19, or another illness, which can help them make better treatment decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
According to study findings, this is the order of symptoms that patients can experience:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe study found that patients with seasonal flu more commonly developed a cough before the onset of fever,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Robert Glatter, emergency physician, Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York, told Healthline. \u201cIn reality, this may be difficult to discern since the flu often begins abruptly with a triad of symptoms, including back pain, chills, along with a dry cough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glatter said that the study findings are potentially useful \u201cwhen evaluating multiple patients in a busy clinical setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the study, while influenza typically begins with a cough, the first symptom of COVID-19 is fever.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur results support the notion that fever should be used to screen for entry into facilities as regions begin to reopen after the outbreak of Spring 2020,\u201d the study authors wrote.<\/p>\n