[danek_szy]

Symptoms as described by WHO:

- https://i.cbc.ca/1.5496615.1584111464!/fileImage/httpImage/i...

- https://sm.mashable.com/mashable_sea/photo/default/coronavir...

[axiomdata316]

What's alarming and kind of ironic is that COVID 19 has a lack of symptoms compared to the common flu. Aches and pains sometimes for COVID 19 as opposed to aches and pains common for the common flu. Runny nose sometimes for COVID 19 but runny nose common for the Common Flu. Its almost to say if you feel really bad you probably don't have COVID 19 unless you really start having trouble breathing. It's helps me appreciate the need to stay home if I just start getting SOME of the symptoms for the flu like a fever. Don't wait for body aches or a runny nose.

[chalst]

The February report from WHO did not list runny nose as a symptom. If you do have a runny nose, though, that increases the riskiness of hand-nose contact as an infection pathway.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...

[mantap]

The important thing is that achy muscles don't spread disease (quite the reverse) but coughing does. So people with a recent bad cough should stay at home.

[perlgeek]

Those two tables contradict each other. The first says runny nose is not a symptom of COVID-19, the other says "sometimes".

This just shows how little we know (and/or how much misinformation there is about it), and that a differential diagnosis based on symptoms is basically impossible (at least for a non-expert).

[Barrin92]

it's also quite possible that some people suffer both from covid-19 and the flu or a cold at the same time and the symptoms are being mixed up.

[danek_szy]

Then maybe this [1] clears things out. Probably differences in understanding what "sometimes" means. This shows specific frequency/percentages.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-sympto...

[jsjddbbwj]

Are there any major differences between this and the annual, regular flu?

[tomatotomato37]

It's essentially a somewhat more intense flu with no herd immunity, which means instead of spreading itself nicely throughout the year it comes in at once in a massive exponential spike that blows out the medical system

I'm kinda curious though if this quarantining is also gonna significantly help with any other diseases already out in the wild. Would be nice if we ended up also clearing out some of the regular flu stains too

[cm2012]

Death rate is between 5x-25x higher, hospitalization rate even higher than that. Regular flu has a .01 death rate, Covid is at .08 right now in Korea and like 4% in Italy.