Have we been thinking about covid-19 symptoms all wrong?

By Jessica Hamzelou

HAVE we been getting covid-19 all wrong? As the list of symptoms recognised by health authorities evolves, we are starting to learn that people seem to fall into one of several symptom clusters, and that we might be missing the most important signs of the disease in children.

The findings could help researchers better understand how the virus affects individuals differently, and how an outbreak in a preschool might look very different to one in a care home.

In January, when the world was first alerted to a new …