- The first symptom of COVID-19 is usually a fever.
- Then come respiratory symptoms, like a dry cough and shortness of breath, that often turn into pneumonia.
- The worst cases often lead to respiratory failure, which could result in death.
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What COVID-19 symptoms look like, day by day
It can take as few as two or as many as 14 days after being exposed to the novel coronavirus for the first symptom to develop.
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