Must be with the cool kids pretending this is still a concern and being edgy.
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Must be with the cool kids pretending this is still a concern and being edgy.
Yea my gf has nothing for 3 days. This is recent. Started with sore throat.
I have “recovered” near 4 weeks ago now but my nose is still blocked every day without decongestant. Extremely frustrating as I feel fine otherwise.
Friend had this as well. They did steam baths a few times and it helped enormously.
I had a weird sensation deep in the back of my nose, almost behind my shoulder blades really, which I suspect was inflammation damage/congestion at the top of the lower respiratory tract (or bottom of the upper depending how you look at it) which took over 4 weeks to clear up entirely, sometimes at night would result in a blocked nose but wasn't a problem during the day.
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I do tests when I feel I may have been exposed or when I feel a sore throat coming on, etc.
Have got plenty of stock from when they were chucking them at us, so still all good.
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Had a colleague who sneezed once and suddenly claimed he had a cold…..
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Had a Pfizer Covid booster yesterday. My chest feels heavy. Plus gone really tired at round 4:30pm
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I would say that 125 Covid patients taking up beds in our hospital is a concern.
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Took three Covid+ patients to the mortuary a few days back and moved about 10 living Covid+ patients around over the last two days.
Both PCR and LFT are negative.
Both PCR and LFT are negative.
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Genuinely believe that people have forgotten how bad a cold can be sometimes, Covid is a hypochondriacs wet dream.
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Colds can be horrible but the vast majority of people are back to normal about 2 days after symptoms subside, same is often not true of COVID.
COVID is much more like flu for the majority which is much worse than a cold and a significant concern for older or vulnerable people hence we vaccinate for both.
Over and understating the impact of COVID, the pressure it can still put on our health system and the risk to older and vulnerable people isn’t help full it has long been known that the nhs struggles in winter due to Flu and COVID multiplies this.
Had covid a couple times now, and unlike cold/flu, each time I've felt like my throat has been left raw and inflamed, which has taken weeks to fade.
At least my second infection didn't trigger the same heart problems my first did.
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I had no idea we had Covid deaths at the hospital, they aren't really releasing that info at the moment but just the amount of cases.
It's been exactly the opposite for me, my colds can last for a horrible two weeks where my 3x Covid bouts have been virtually nothing and hopefully it will stay that way.
'Long cold' also a thing..
www.thetimes.co.uk
It revealed that the “long Covid” phenomenon — when people experience prolonged symptoms such as fatigue and breathlessness — applied to most other respiratory illnesses including the common cold.
Given colds are much more prevalent than covid this likely explains the high number of self reported supposed 'long covid' cases..
Have you got ‘long cold’? Symptoms can stay weeks after infection
People can suffer from “long colds” and feel under the weather for weeks after initial symptoms such as sneezing have gone, research shows.More than 10,000 adul
www.thetimes.co.uk
It revealed that the “long Covid” phenomenon — when people experience prolonged symptoms such as fatigue and breathlessness — applied to most other respiratory illnesses including the common cold.
Given colds are much more prevalent than covid this likely explains the high number of self reported supposed 'long covid' cases..
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I'm no expert on this but I can't ever remember anybody pre-Covid claiming they had still got symptoms months later after a cold.
They died of COVID or they died with COVID?
Colds don't have the same hysteria and scaremongering and have been around at lot longer.. Ive had cold symptoms that have lingered regardless its based on a study of 10,000 people... the point is lingering symptoms are present in 10% of people with respiratory illnesses so given colds are more prevalent its likely that a large subset of people that claim to have long covid probably don't..