No, you can’t hear the difference between sick and healthy coughs
Humans can’t seem to pick up on subtle variations in the sounds
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A man outdoors coughs into a face mask. Humans can’t distinguish the cough of a healthy person from that of a sick person by sound alone, new research suggests.
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