Acute cough and shortness of breath

DDx

Pneumonia
Asthma, eg, cough-variant or triggered by URI
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (Farmer's lung, etc.)
Pulmonary edema, eg, CHF
Pulmonary embolism
Pneumothorax
Myocardial ischemia
Toxic organic dust syndrome

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