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Speedy wrote:
A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms

https://www.aol.com/news/covid-variant-hv-1-now-023335640.html

What are HV.1 symptoms?

The symptoms caused by infection with HV.1 are similar to those caused by recent variants, says Schaffner, which include:

Sore throat

Congestion or stuffiness

Runny nose

Cough

Fatigue

Headache

Muscle aches

Fever or chills

“Congestion, sore throat and dry cough seem to be the three most prominent symptoms right now,” says Schaffner.

Increasingly, doctors report that COVID-19 symptoms appear to follow a pattern of being concentrated in the upper respiratory tract, starting with a sore throat and followed by congestion or a runny nose, NBC news reported.

Coughing isn't typically a primary symptom, but it can persist. "The virus seems to produce a kind of a chronic bronchitis, so that you can have a cough syndrome that lasts beyond the period where you’ve recovered from other symptoms," says Schaffner.

Another trend is that COVID-19 seems to be causing milder infections, likely because people have some prior immunity. “By milder, we mean it doesn’t require hospitalization even though you can feel quite miserable for several days,” says Schaffner.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-summary

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After reading the symptoms and seeing they matched the ones I had been experiencing, I took a Covid test which was positive. I felt miserable for about three days and now just have a sore throat and resultant cough. My wife had it, we suspect, and had recovered several days before I became symptomatic. Her case wasn’t quite as miserable. We are fully boosted and this was our first time with Covid.

Sorry to hear that. Aren’t you the one who is more than fully boosted, like you had several extra shots?
Glad you and your wife are both better.