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This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.

We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.

We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.

I'm Tonya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman. And we're Scientific American's senior health editors.

Today, how to care for yourself when you're sick at home with COVID.

And how do you know when it's just spring allergies making you sneeze and not the virus?

These days, I keep hearing about people getting COVID and riding it out at home.

If you have a relatively mild case, what should you do to take care of yourself?

More and more people are in exactly that situation, Tanya.

The daily average of new cases has been going up, from about 50,000 at the end of April to just

over 80,000 today. But a lot fewer people are ending up in the hospital, just under 20,000

at the end of last week. Well, that's good, but that means more people with COVID are taking

care of themselves at home, right? Yep. So what's the best way to do that? What helps with symptoms? How do you

handle isolation? I asked Scientific American contributing editor Lydia Denworth to look into that.

She spoke with several doctors who treat COVID and came up with some good tips.

Even though we call these mild cases, people say it's often like two weeks of the worst

flu you can imagine, with fevers and racking coughs.

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