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Nov 3, 2023 · Sometimes (especially with a stuffy nose) COVID-19 symptoms usually start 2 to 14 days after exposure to SARS-CoV-2. But symptoms of a common cold usually appear 1 to 3 days after exposure to a cold-causing virus. There's no cure for the common cold.
Mar 15, 2024 · New guidance from the CDC advises people to isolate until they have been fever-free and with symptoms improving for at least 24 hours, and then take precautions for five days, which covers the...
Mar 5, 2024 · The CDC has simplified its recommendations for how long to stay home and isolate after testing positive or experiencing symptoms to be consistent across COVID-19, influenza, and RSV infections. This way, anyone who develops symptoms can follow the same isolation guidance, irrespective of what respiratory virus they’re infected with.
Experts generally agree that it's best to stay home as long as you have severe symptoms, like a cough with mucus, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, or fatigue, because you may be contagious. And the CDC...
Mar 1, 2024 · The CDC’s new guidance for Covid now more closely matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses and no longer suggests isolating for five days.
Mar 20, 2024 · Compared to people with flu, people infected with COVID-19 may take longer to show symptoms and may be contagious for longer periods of time. You cannot tell the difference between flu and COVID-19 by the symptoms alone because they have some of the same signs and symptoms.
Stay home if you’ve been exposed or infected so that you don’t risk spreading the flu or COVID-19 to others. Symptoms of COVID-19 and the flu. Mild cases of COVID-19 present similarly to the flu. “The symptoms are virtually the same, especially new infections in people who have been vaccinated,” Dr. Englund says.
