There’s one main symptom that could help you tell them apart.
The flu comes on fast, typically one to four days after you have been infected. Keep in mind that not everyone with the flu develops a fever, but it is still common.
While both the flu and COVID-19 are believed to spread from person-to-person via respiratory droplets after a person talks, coughs, or sneezes, the CDC says COVID-19 is more contagious and has established more “super-spreading” events.It’s really difficult to tell the difference between the two, even for doctors. “The early symptoms of influenza and COVID can be identical,” Dr. Fernando says.Thomas Russo, M.D.
, professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York. “I would be much more likely to think COVID-19 than the flu if someone had that symptom,” he says. “But there’s no absolute symptom that differentiates the two.” Only testing someone for the flu and COVID-19 can accurately determine the illness they are dealing with, says
, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Without a test, we just don’t know for sure,” he says.It’s important to note that both COVID-19 and the flu are dangerous illnesses. According to
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