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Liverpool Echo
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Patrick Edrich

Experts have seen 'surprising' changes in covid symptoms since pandemic started

Senior medical experts said covid symptoms have significantly changed since the pandemic first began in 2020.

A recent article in the BMJ heard from several senior medical professional who said Covid-19 symptoms had "evolved". Due to a number of new variants and changes in levels of vaccination and immunity, experts said they've seen a number of "surprising" changes.

At the start of the pandemic the first commonly reported symptoms were the recognisable loss of smell and taste, followed by shortness of breath and then vascular injuries. Dr David Strain, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School said "that became the standard that we expected".

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