sniffle

"If my little boy has got a sniffle I can't afford to take the risk if it's going to cost me 0.1 or 0.2 seconds because I know that that victory will be worth it if he understands, and one day he will."

However, once the coronavirus began to spread, many wondered if presenteeism would wane as the public grew more fearful of those with a cough or sniffle — but that didn’t seem to last long.

“It's terrible. Too terrible,” she said with a sniffle.

People might initially shrug off a little sniffle or a tiny sore throat.

For some of us, Covid is just a sniffle - not even enough to make you go digging around in the bathroom cabinet to see if there is a lateral flow test hiding in there.