Doctors are increasingly finding it difficult to differentiate between the common cold and COVID because its symptoms are now so mild they make the two almost indistinguishable, the Daily Mail reports.

Dr Erick Eiting, who chairs the emergency medicine operations department at New York’s Mount Sinai, made that comment while discussing the recent COVID outbreak on NBC.

The Daily Mail provides more details:

Dr Eiting told NBC News: ‘Just about [every Covid patient] who I’ve seen has had really mild symptoms.

‘The only way that we knew it was Covid was because we happened to be testing them.’

He added: ‘It isn’t [causing] the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat.’

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Of course, that won’t stop calls for a return to masking. READ: Mask Mandates Return: Full List of Places With Restrictions in Place

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And there are even growing concerns about the return of the socially and economically destructive lockdowns. READ: Are Lockdowns Coming Back? These Fauci Comments Are Fueling Suspicions