COVID symptom you get depends on the type of vaccine you've received: Study

Researchers have discovered that as COVID's grip on humanity has grown deeper, its symptoms are starting to resemble those of the flu, colds, and even allergies.

That pattern has grown more prominent among the immunised. However, even when unvaccinated people are infected, they frequently report a variety of broad symptoms that may be mistaken for any number of other widespread illnesses that are currently on the rise in the US.

A COVID-19 symptom tracker developed by researchers at Harvard, Stanford, and King's College in London, the Zoe Health Study, provided the most recent update. The findings are in line with symptoms that users of the Zoe COVID Study app in the UK, where new COVID cases have been alarmingly rising, have been reporting over the past few weeks. For instance, those who have received the vaccine are reporting sneezing more frequently as a symptom of COVID-19.

“Curiously, we noticed that people who had been vaccinated and then tested positive for COVID-19 were more likely to report sneezing as a symptom compared with those without a jab,” the researchers said.

Those who have received their complete vaccination reported the following symptoms as being the most typical, in order of prevalence:

Sore throat

Persistent cough

Runny nose

Headache

Blocked nose

Researchers found that "traditional" symptoms from the pandemic's early months, such as loss of smell, fever, and shortness of breath, were significantly down the list in people who had received two doses of a vaccine, being labelled the sixth, eighth, and 29th most common COVID symptoms.

The most typical current symptoms were marginally different in those who had only received one dose of the vaccine:

Headache

Sore throat

Runny nose

Persistent cough

Sneezing

According to the Zoe study, the symptoms of the virus that you're most likely to contract if you haven't received any dose of a COVID vaccine include:

Fever

Headache

Runny nose

Sore throat

Persistent cough

The Omicron variation and its new variant, including BA.5, the virus strain that presently dominates in America, are expected to cause milder sickness than their forerunners, even in those who have not received vaccinations. As we enter the winter season, researchers anticipate an increase in mortality due to COVID infections.