Doctors who treat Covid describe the ways the illness has gotten milder and shifted over time to mostly affect the upper respiratory tract.

Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish Covid from allergies or the common cold, even as hospitalizations tick up.

The illness’ past hallmarks, such as a dry cough or the loss of sense of taste or smell, have become less common. Instead, doctors are observing milder disease, mostly concentrated in the upper respiratory tract.

“It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat,” said Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City.

The sore throat usually arrives first, he said, then congestion.

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    Ok, but now you are assuming intent of the news desk still without evidence. I get where you’re coming from, but without actual evidence showing a clear organizational bias for a certain narrative, making that assumption isn’t anymore valid than assuming the actual reporters intent.

    And again, furthering a viewpoint does not make propaganda. Virtually all news is going to further one viewpoint or another, even if the organization and writer are 100% unbiased. Facts usually don’t maintain a neutral ground on a topic.

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      I get where you’re coming from, but without actual evidence showing a clear organizational bias for a certain narrative

      You mean like how they and others keep publishing articles saying, or intimating, that COVID is less severe now even though there’s really no evidence for that?

      It’s the fact they keep doing it that makes it propaganda.

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        even though there’s really no evidence for that

        Ironic considering you’ve presented no evidence to support that.