The SARS-CoV-2 infection has affected millions of lives across the globe, presenting a range of symptoms as well as asymptomatic individuals acting as carriers of the virus. A team of researchers from the US Universities of California and Tufts designed a model to understand whether the symptoms of COVID varied geographically or with patient characteristics. The findings indicate that symptoms varied with the viral mutations. These findings could help in differentiating symptomatic infections, enabling timely measures and a decrease in the infection spread.
A model to predict the order of symptoms arising in the countries of China and the US was built by the researchers. The patients from China showed symptoms of fever before cough followed by nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea as compared to those from the US which showed cough before fever and diarrhea followed by nausea, vomiting. …
