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Reported illnesses have ranged from people with mild symptoms to people being serverly ill and dying.
Symptoms can Include:
COVID-19 typically causes flu-like symptoms including a fever and cough.
In some patients - particularly the elderly and other with other chronic health conditions - these symptoms ca develop into pneumonia, with chest tightness, chest pain, and Shortness of breath.
It seems to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough.
After a week, it can leads to Shortness of breath, with about 20% of patients requiring hospital treatment.
Notably, the COVID-19 infection rarely seems to cause a runny nose, sneezing, or sore throat (these symptoms have been observed in only about 5% of patients). Sore throat, sneezing and stuffy nose are most often signs of a cold.
Based on all 72.314 cases of COVID-19 confirmed, suspected and asymptomatic cases in China as of February 11, a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology has found that: