New COVID symptoms added to official NHS list as free testing ends
The new symptoms have been added to the NHS website, alongside the three traditional symptoms of a fever, a new and persistent cough, and a loss or change in taste or smell.
According to the NHS the signs of COVID-19 that people should look out for also include:
- shortness of breath;
- feeling tired or exhausted;
- an aching body;
- a headache;
- a sore throat;
- a blocked or runny nose;
- loss of appetite;
- diarrhoea;
- feeling sick or being sick.
It's a bureaucratic thing - the list was never, ever likely to remain at three symptoms. Count how many symptoms catastrophic climate change has - same problem - bureaucratic bloat.
Tennis elbow isn't on the list yet, but don't hold your breath. For one thing, holding your breath could be interpreted as the first of the new symptoms.
4 comments:
How many symptoms does Bureaucratic Bloat have, though?
Rapid swelling of the payroll
Detaching of the job-title
Loss of sense of proportion
Amnesia regarding the initial purpose of the organisation
Multiplication of personnel
Delusions of legislation
Functional obesity
Certainly, there should be 'Walking on the cracks in the pavement' and 'being seen with an offensive wife'!
The show must go on - just like those films (movies) with sequel after sequel, the franchise must be milked until dry.
Mondaymorningitis is a terrible symptom, needing at least two days off.
Sam - good list. I'd add delusions of efficiency because some public sector people do think they are just as efficient as the private sector.
Scrobs - especially 'being seen with someone else's offensive wife'.
Ed - Mondaymorningitis certainly needs a few days off. It seems to affect our GPs every day though.
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