Health care providers can run diagnostic flu and/or COVID tests to detect what you’ve been infected with. Yes, the vast majority of people who get the flu or COVID recover. With the flu, symptoms typically appear one to four days after exposure. “The key best practices continue to remain getting vaccinated for flu, getting vaccinated and boosted for COVID when eligible, wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing from others, good hand-washing, staying home when sick, and getting tested for flu and COVID when sick,” said Matthew Kronman, associate medical director of infection prevention at Seattle Children’s in Washington. Stay home until you know what’s what and once you’re cleared of any infection.

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2022 01:29 UTC