GOT COVID-LIKE SIGNS, BUT NO COVID?

A COUGH, headache, and perhaps a loss of sense of smell and taste: tell-tale Covid symptoms, you might think. Or are they?

Last week, columnist Sarah Vine wrote of her bizarre Covid-like illness – and subsequent negative Covid tests. She was immediately inundated with letters from readers in the same boat.

Could they all be getting false negative test results? Or perhaps it’s long Covid – symptoms of the virus that can linger, long after the initial viral illness has passed. We don’t know, as yet, whether the vaccine protects against this, although in theory it should.

It’s a bit of a mystery, I have to admit. If you’ve been affected in a similar way, we’d like to hear from you.

Write to me and I’ll try my best to find out what’s going on.