If they sound extremely similar, that's because they are, according to Manisha Juthani, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist. “Based on symptoms alone, COVID-19 and flu are very difficult to distinguish,” says Dr. Juthani.

Well they are not hard to distinguish based upon the response of the basketball world. Has flu ever been mentioned as a reason to interrupt the Tournament, even though in the current flu season there have been over 20,000 deaths from the disease? I understand that politically speaking government entities have to over-respond, but this is beginning to border on the ridiculous (in my humble opinion). Fever, cough, shortness of breath, maybe sore throat and runny nose. My mother would not even have called a doctor for that. Get lots of sleep, drink lots of hot fluids, rub your chest with Vapo-Rub, and in a few days you will get better.