COVID-19 Cases Become Milder, With Upper Respiratory Focus, Doctors Say
COVID-19 symptoms have now become more mild and are nearly indistinguishable from allergies or the common cold, often affecting the upper respiratory tract, a number of doctors have said. They note that some of the notable COVID-19 symptoms, including a cough or a loss of taste or smell, are less common among patients. "It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat," Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at New York's Mount Sinai, told NBC News on Sept. 16. "Just about everyone who I've seen has had really mild symptoms," Dr. Eiting said, referring to urgent care COVID-19 patients. "The only way that we knew that it was COVID was because we happened to be testing them." A study published in The Lancet shows that symptoms for COVID-19 have become milder since the omicron variant emerged and supplanted the delta variant in late ...