Infectionist Timakov: COVID-19 is disguised not only for ARVI, but also for any diseases the coronavirus is capable of “masking”. The infection causes not only the symptoms of acute respiratory viral infections, but also any other diseases, writes URA.RU.
“Coronavirus infection disguises itself as any disease, any ARVI, therefore, there may be upset stools, and headaches, and fatigue , and a runny nose, and a cough, and a sore throat, “- said Timakov.
For any ailment, the doctor advised to analyze whether a person could become infected with COVID-19. Any symptom can become a sign of coronavirus, so you need to assess the situation by who the patient communicated with and whether there were carriers of the infection in his environment. “Unfortunately, during the height of the epidemic, nothing is different,” he added.
The former chief infectious disease specialist in Moscow, Nikolai Malyshev, confirmed that the coronavirus manifests itself through any symptoms of SARS, which number in the dozens.
< p> “These are the symptoms that can be present in any acute respiratory disease, and there are several dozen of them. And not only viral etiology, and bacterial. There are fungal. Even with the migration of worms, roughly speaking, phenomena similar to a respiratory infection can also be observed, “Malyshev explained.