Most people who contract COVID today will only experience mild symptoms. However, some individuals remain at risk of severe illness and are more likely to be hospitalised. This includes older adults, people with weakened immune systems due to conditions like cancer, and those with underlying health conditions such as diabetes.
Typical early symptoms of COVID included fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, and shortness of breath. These have remained the most common symptoms across multiple variant waves.
Early in the pandemic, it was discovered that COVID could cause a unique symptom called anosmia — a loss or change in the sense of taste or smell. Anosmia typically lasts about a week, though in some cases it may persist longer. It was more commonly reported with infections caused by the ancestral strain, as well as the Gamma and Delta variants, but was less frequently associated with the Omicron variant, which emerged in 2021.
However, loss of smell still appears to be linked to some newer variants. A recent French study found that anosmia was more frequently reported in individuals infected with the JN.1 variant.
The researchers, however, did not observe any significant differences in other COVID symptoms between older and newer variants.
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