How To Tell The Difference Between The Flu, The Delta Variant, Or A Cold

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – With the flu play upon america and the delta variant continuing to marque radical sick, it mightiness beryllium hard for radical feeling nether the upwind to separate betwixt the flu, the archetypal COVID-19 strain, and the delta variant.

First off, if you person COVID, it’s astir apt the delta variant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The delta strain is present the ascendant strain of COVID-19 successful America. The archetypal COVID-19 strain that started the pandemic is nary longer being detected.

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Regarding symptoms, past year, COVID-19 looked a batch similar the flu, accidental wellness experts. Now, the COVID-19 cases — astatine slightest the milder ones — tin look akin to a communal acold oregon seasonal allergies.

“Delta is simply a small antithetic successful presumption of symptoms,” says Jeffrey Silvers, M.D., aesculapian manager of corruption power astatine Sutter Health. “Although nonaccomplishment of sensation and/or odor without nasal congestion inactive powerfully suggests COVID, it’s little communal with the delta variant. A runny chemoreceptor is much communal with delta – adhd a sore pharynx and it tin much easy beryllium confused with allergies oregon a communal cold.”

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Unlike the archetypal COVID-19 strain, the delta variant besides has a shorter incubation play of astir 4 days, compared to 5.6 days for the archetypal virus, according to Sutter Health.

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Sutter Health has provided a chart detailing the symptoms of respiratory illnesses. You tin besides cheque the CDC’s website for a implicit database of COVID-19 symptoms.