Covid-19 has many faces

ACCORDING TOSARSCVSARSCVThe EconomistThe Economist Today England’s National Health Service the signs that someone has contracted the novel coronavirus -o-2 are a high temperature or a new, continuous cough. This is certainly true for a majority of patients, but it is not so for a sizeable minority. Papers published in recent weeks present the new virus as having many faces. This is in stark contrast to the way in which influenza, another primarily respiratory disease, behaves—and it makes -o-2 all the more dangerous. It also raises the question of why this virus’s symptoms are so protean.