As a result, scientists have been able to get a much better picture of the developing symptoms of Covid-19.
According to data from the app, it looks like the illness from Covid-19 is getting milder and closer in severity to that of a common cold.
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, and Chief Scientist on the app, Professor Tim Spector said: “Broadly what we’re seeing now is the majority of people testing PCR positive actually have cold-like symptoms and they do not have the classical triad of ill Covid symptoms of fever, loss of smell and taste and persistent cough.”
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The professor also said that the symptoms are now changing from those on the official government website: “More than 50 percent of people are presenting, and never getting those other symptoms, and yet they are testing PCR positive.”
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Source: Daily Express
