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Fever and cough best indicators for COVID-19 in children and adolescents – News-Medical.Net
Most testing is driven by fever, persistent cough of recent onset, and abnormalities in smell. Such symptoms are considered indicative of continuing SARS-CoV-2 …
In most places around the world today, testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is initially based on common symptoms. The assumption is that testing symptomatic individuals and tracing, testing, and isolating their positive contacts is the most efficient way of using limited testing resources.
In the UK, the criteria for testing individuals for SARS-CoV-2 are the presence of fever, a new persistent cough, and loss or change in the sense of smell. Similar symptom…
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