June 2020.
Over the past three months, doctors and medical staff dealing with coronavirus-infected patients have documented a growing list of atypical infection symptoms, giving more insight into the COVID-19 disease and its side-effects.
The first reported symptoms included fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste and smell, and fatigue/tiredness being the most common presenting features. Body aches and pains, repeated shaking and tremors, a runny or blocked nose, sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, a heightened clotting tendency and neurological symptoms were all noted, too.
With the pandemic spread and the extensive clinical research being conducted worldwide, researchers are observing more and different symptoms, with mounting evidence that the disease presents differently depending on the patient’s age and condition. Many of these less-common symptoms remain rare in incidence, such as multi-system inflammatory syndromes, strokes and blood clots, silent hypoxia, delirium, and dermatological manifestations, but it’s important to be aware of them.
Over a period of just two months, it has become apparently clear that there are many dermatological manifestations of the COVID-19 infection, and it is now estimated that up to 20% of people infected with COVID-19 will develop some sort of skin lesion, with up to 12.5% developing cutaneous manifestations before the onset of respiratory symptoms or the confirmation of a COVID-19 diagnosis.
