Helen MacDonald

I'm Helen MacDonald, UK Research Editor for the BMJ.

And I'm coming to you from Bath today, where it's very sunny.

Well, this is exactly what I've been thinking about this week and what I've been hearing lots of my clinical colleagues talking about.

And I think it is time to start thinking more broadly about the symptoms of COVID-19.

So a lot of the public information has been very centred on fever and cough or dry cough and breathing problems because those have been the things that have been triggering self-isolation here in the UK.

But in our previous podcast, we mentioned that there were

various case series starting to come out describing symptoms um that people have had and some of those have got quite big now to about a thousand people or so so i think it is time to start looking at the spectrum of um symptoms that people have because i think out in the public people might be kind of falsely reassured by only having a runny nose or or um

just feeling a bit under the weather.

And I know Carl and his team have been working a bit on this.

And I think we should hear more from him on the kind of symptoms that we're starting to see.

And these are systematic review of what, Carl, of the case series?

Yeah, I think it does.

I think it confirms my suspicions from reading the isolated case series that I've read that the symptoms are broader.

I hope it helps clinicians have a lower threshold for suspecting it.

Or start thinking more broadly.

As always.

Just more positive.

I know.

Actually, I've got a good one for here.

Well, I don't know if it's a good one, but I have some evidence.