The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now added six new symptoms to its list for the coronavirus.
They include muscle pain, headache, sore throat, chills, shaking accompanied with chills, and loss of smell/taste.
These symptoms have been added to the pre-existing list of fever, cough, and shortness of breath that could indicate contraction of the virus. Shortness of breath had since been modified by the CDC to “shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.”
While showing any of the aforementioned symptoms does not provide definitive evidence for having COVID-19, they have been used as guidelines to help medical practitioners and the public catch the signs.
COVID-19 patients may experience a wide range of other issues, but the evidence supporting those remains anecdotal. Symptoms typically appear between 2 and 14 days after virus exposure, and studies reflect that patients may actually be most infectious prior to ever showing symptoms.