18 May Philadelphia Magazine: Five puzzling new symptoms of coronavirus, explained
It started with a cough. In the early days, when COVID-19 first began to spread beyond its origin in Wuhan, China, doctors warned about a pesky virus that was causing flu-like symptoms: fever, shortness of breath, a stubborn cough. Doctors have since learned that the virus affects different people in drastically different ways — some experience symptoms within a day or two of being exposed to the virus, others may not see symptoms for as many as two weeks, and some may carry and pass the virus to others without ever experiencing any symptoms at all. And the list of symptoms for COVID-19 has since expanded to include chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and several newly discovered indicators that doctors are still trying to understand…