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If you have a cold right now, there's a good chance it's COVID-19, study finds
yahooooo ^ | Thu, December 23, 2021, 12:04 PM | Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce

Posted on 12/23/2021 2:07:23 PM PST by BenLurkin

New data from the Zoe symptom-tracker app suggests one in two people with new coldlike symptoms will have COVID-19 rather than the common cold.

Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and the study's lead author, said in a press release on Thursday that for most people, getting infected with Omicron would feel "much more like the common cold, starting with a sore throat, runny nose and a headache," rather than fevers, continuous cough, or loss of taste or smell.

To get to the 50% figure, Spector and his team compared the number of new cases of a coldlike illness with the number of new cases of COVID-19 confirmed by a lateral flow or lab test.

According to Spector's findings, people with Omicron who reported symptoms on the Zoe app were less likely to have five or more symptoms than those with Delta.

He has found at least 20 common symptoms that are self-reported by Zoe's 850,000 weekly users. The top five are headache, fatigue, a runny nose, sore throat, and sneezing — similar to the symptoms of the Delta variant.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19
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To: BenLurkin

Not referring to you but based on some of the comments the crazy has finally spread rather equally to both sides when it comes to COVID.

Terrific.


41 posted on 12/23/2021 3:22:00 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: BenLurkin

Given the reliability of PCR tests, the reverse may also be true.


42 posted on 12/23/2021 3:22:17 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

If and I mean if they send me a test kit I will use it to test fruit and vegetables, and I’m 100 sure they will test positive.


43 posted on 12/23/2021 3:23:40 PM PST by Brasky (You miss every shot you never take.)
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To: BenLurkin

…aaaaand, until the government saw an opportunity to once again fleece the American people, giving it a SCARY name and spending billions of dollars on a campaign to tell us all to FEAR!!, everybody would simply treat it like a cold and we’d all be fine like we all have since the beginning of time..


44 posted on 12/23/2021 3:26:22 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Brasky

It might be fun to put on some PPE (mask and gloves), and maybe take a chance on opening the package outside, in a well ventilated area. Then put some sterile saline on it I use for my contacts, or rubbing alcohol, or cheap vodka... See if it is hard-wired to positive. But honestly, I don’t even want to open it.


45 posted on 12/23/2021 3:31:09 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: 4Liberty

⬆️⬆️⬆️🆙🆙🆙


46 posted on 12/23/2021 3:33:50 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: rainee
— “something is up.”

Indeed.

In Europe, “Today, the Commission adopted rules relating to the EU Digital COVID Certificate, establishing a binding acceptance period of 9 months (precisely 270 days) of vaccination certificates for the purposes of intra-EU travel. A clear and uniform acceptance period for vaccination certificates will guarantee that travel measures continue to be coordinated, as called for by the European Council following its latest meeting of 16 December 2021. The new rules will ensure restrictions are based on the best available scientific evidence as well as objective criteria. Continued coordination is essential for the functioning of the Single Market and it will provide clarity for EU citizens in the exercise of their right to free movement.”

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6837

Mandatory “vaccination certificates” will require mandatory. More and more like the Chinese “social score” system. Something indeed is up.

47 posted on 12/23/2021 3:42:19 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: BenLurkin

And if not, we’ll count it as COVID anyway.


48 posted on 12/23/2021 3:52:56 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time; Roman_War_Criminal; 444Flyer; patriot torch

(In Europe, “Today, the Commission adopted rules relating to the EU Digital COVID Certificate, establishing a binding acceptance period of 9 months (precisely 270 days) of vaccination certificates for the purposes of intra-EU travel.)

Well, color me shocked. Not.

It’s obvious where this will eventually lead.


49 posted on 12/23/2021 4:45:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

There is a bad head cold going around. The symptoms are the exactly the same as a bad head cold(No Fever/ Chills).

No doubt that they are wishing to capitalize on that and call them all covid. These colds will also likely make you test positive in a covid test. These people are so deceptive.


50 posted on 12/23/2021 4:59:32 PM PST by Revel
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To: BenLurkin

If you have a cold there’s a good chance it’s a cold


51 posted on 12/23/2021 7:46:39 PM PST by vigilante2
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To: SaveFerris

“...It’s obvious where this will eventually lead.”

And getting there quickly.

12/22/21

“Hiring alert: Austria seeks hunters of the unvaccinated”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/hiring-alert-austria-seeks-hunters-of-the-unvaccinated/ar-AAS3562?ocid=uxbndlbing


52 posted on 12/23/2021 8:09:15 PM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: joethedrummer

(Those controlling govt.)


53 posted on 12/23/2021 8:16:57 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: 444Flyer

Great........ 😞


54 posted on 12/23/2021 8:23:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: nascarnation

Serious question. Does anyone recall when moronic popped up in the US and South Africa?


55 posted on 12/23/2021 9:08:34 PM PST by jrestrepo (Now I am an insurgent. Starve the beast (any way possible) )
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To: BenLurkin

My wife had a bad cold four weeks ago and got over it in a week. Almost two weeks ago I had a terrible sneezing fit (maybe 50 sneezes in one day) followed by a non-stop runny nose the next. Then two days later, all was fine. We are both vaxxed and boosted due to age. My wife was boosted before she got it; I got the boost a week after getting sick.

I was wondering if we might have had it.


56 posted on 12/23/2021 10:01:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: BenLurkin

Meaning that now a virus that produces no worse conditions than a cold warrants worldwide panic? OmiCon?


57 posted on 12/24/2021 4:23:37 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: BenLurkin

Half of the people in the UK reporting a cold are testing as Covid (omicron variant).


58 posted on 12/25/2021 10:07:36 AM PST by JoeRender
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