A new American study has shown that the symptoms reported in recent weeks have changed from the most common symptoms of COVID-19 since the virus began spreading worldwide nearly three years ago. The study highlights how the "symptoms recorded previously have changed with the new variants of the virus" over the past three years.
According to the Miami Herald, the study states: "The main symptoms were largely similar among those infected, regardless of vaccination status." The study found that four out of the five main symptoms of COVID-19 were the same for participants who received two vaccine doses, one vaccine dose, and those unvaccinated. These symptoms included headache, persistent cough, sore throat, and runny nose.
However, the study found that the main symptoms differed in the order for each vaccination group. Each group also reported different symptoms. For those who received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the symptoms included sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, persistent cough, and headache. Previously, loss of smell, shortness of breath, and fever were considered more common symptoms for those vaccinated with two doses, according to the study.
For those who received one vaccine dose, "sneezing" became one of the prominent symptoms of COVID-19, along with headache, runny nose, sore throat, and persistent cough.
For the third group, the unvaccinated, participants in the study reported that they frequently experienced fever more than the other groups, with symptoms including fever, headache, sore throat, runny nose, and persistent cough.
The study relied on daily self-reported data and did not take into account COVID-19 variants or the demographics of the participants.
