(Clue: they’re not what you might think – or what the Government tells you.)
For a long time, we’ve been told that the classic symptoms of Covid-19 are fever, cough, and loss of sense of smell or taste.
Those are the symptoms the Government tells us we need to check for, and get a PCR test if we experience.
But that list hasn’t been updated for a very long time. And those symptoms were only experienced by about half those whose data was analysed by the ZOE COVID Study at King’s College London.
Scientists took the health reports from UK contributors reporting positive cases in the ZOE COVID Study app in December 2021 as Omicron became dominant. They then compared them with data from early October when Delta was the dominant variant.
They also confirmed these findings by analysing data from a small group of contributors who had been told by the Government that their positive PCR results were suspected or confirmed Omicron infections.
The top 5 symptoms in both periods, for both Delta and Omicron, were:
More information at https://joinzoe.com/learn/omicron-symptoms