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Are your coronavirus symptoms real or imagined? Expert explains how this can happen

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With so much focus on detecting the symptoms of coronavirus it can easily lead to health anxiety, according to an expert. According to the NHS, the main symptoms of COVID-19 are a high temperature and/or a new, continuous cough.

These are quite physical symptoms which you would think are pretty self-explanatory. But Jane Ogden, Professor in Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, has found that being exposed to so much information about the virus can cause us to think we have symptoms, when we actually don’t.

She explained: “Much as the serious symptoms of COVID 19 are clearly indisputable, those experienced in the early days following exposure to the virus are all too familiar and open to all the biases of symptom perception that

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