The symptoms of COVID-19 can vary depending on the type of variant contracted, ranging from mild symptoms to potentially fatal illness. Common symptoms include coughing, fever, loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia), with less common ones including headaches, nasal congestion and runny nose, muscle pain, sore throat, diarrhea, eye irritation, and toes swelling or turning purple. In moderate to severe cases, breathing difficulties can occur. Other symptoms may include dizziness when standing up, trouble sleeping, rash, mood changes, changes in menstrual cycles, brain fog, depression, and anxiety).
Emergency symptoms of COVID-19 include difficulty in breathing, persistent chest pain or pressure, sudden confusion, loss of mobility and speech, and bluish face or lips. Neurological symptoms such as delirium, stroke, brain hemorrhage, memory loss, psychosis, peripheral nerve damage, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder may also occur, but are rare).
Its important to note that symptoms may change with new COVID-19 variants and can vary depending on vaccination status. People with severe disease and those needing hospital treatment should receive treatment as soon as possible, as the consequences of severe COVID-19 can include death, respiratory failure, sepsis, blood clots, and multiorgan failure).
