York Street PS

 Possible Symptoms of COVID

• Fever ( temperature 37.8°C/100.0°F or higher);

•  Chills

•  Cough (more than usual if chronic cough) including croup (barking cough, making a whistling noise when breathing) not related to other known causes or conditions; (for example, asthma, reactive airway)

•  Shortness of breath (dyspnea, out of breath, unable to breathe deeply, wheeze, that is worse than usual if chronically short of breath) not related to other known causes or conditions (for example, asthma)

•  Decrease or loss of smell or taste (new olfactory or taste disorder) not related to other known causes or conditions, (for example, nasal polyps, allergies, neurological disorders);

•  Sore throat (painful swallowing or difficulty swallowing) not related to other known causes or conditions; (for example, post nasal drip, gastroesophagal (acid) reflux);

•  Stuffy nose and/or runny nose,(nasal congestion and/or rhinorrhoea) not related to other known causes or conditions (for example seasonal allergies, returning inside from the cold, chronic sinusitis unchanged from baseline, reactive airways);

•  Headache that is new and persistent, unusual, unexplained, or long-lasting not related to other known causes or conditions (for example, tension-type headache, chronic migraines);

•  Nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea, not related to other known causes or conditions (transient vomiting due to anxiety in children, chronic vestibular dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, side effect of medication)

•  Fatigue, lethargy, muscle aches or malaise (general feeling of being unwell, lack of energy, extreme tiredness, poor feeding in infants) that is unusual or unexplained, not related to other known causes or conditions (for example, depression, insomnia, thyroid disfunction, anemia);