Allergies surge after a year mostly indoors

A year into the pandemic, allergy season is back, and worse than before.

Doctors told CBS2 that their waiting rooms are full of people sniffling and coughing, terrified they have the coronavirus. To make matters worse for worried sufferers, symptoms of severe allergies such as fevers and difficulty breathing do overlap with COVID symptoms.

However, allergy symptoms such as sneezing and watery, irritated eyes are not coronavirus symptoms, while an extremely high fever and loss of smell or taste are not allergy symptoms.

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