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3 omicron variant symptoms you won’t get from the common cold
Worried about the common cold and COVID? Here are the symptoms to look out for
By Herb Scribner@HerbScribner Dec 29, 2021, 8:30pm MST
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Dr. Hai Shao, the infectious disease physician with Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in San Diego, recently told CBS 8 that the omicron variant often has symptoms similar to other COVID-19 strains.
- “They include fever, chills, headache, sore throat, and as it progresses, people will start having cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing,” Shao said.
But Shao said there are three COVID-19 symptoms you’ll see with the omicron variant that you won’t see with the common cold.
- “A unique feature of COVID-19 is loss of sense of smell and taste, which you will not find in common cold viruses,” Shao told CBS 8.
- “The other thing is that a common cold tends not to give high fever and sometimes severe headaches, which omicron is reporting these symptoms as predominant,” Shao said.
- “If you do have those symptoms, it’s much more concerning that you may have gotten COVID than the common cold virus.”
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