Oh No, New Condition - Covid Toes
Health practitioners are noticing a strange new sign that patients could be carrying the coronavirus without symptoms such as a dry cough or fever.
The media and even some health experts are now referring to the condition as[b] “COVID toes”[/b] — mysterious blue or red discoloration in toes and sometimes fingers. It seems to only affect young people.
“We don’t know for sure if it’s related to COVID-19, but when it’s so common right now during a pandemic and is occurring in otherwise asymptomatic or mildly affected patients, it seems too much of a coincidence not to be a manifestation of the virus for patients in their teens and 20s,” Amy Paller, the chair of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement.
The media and even some health experts are now referring to the condition as[b] “COVID toes”[/b] — mysterious blue or red discoloration in toes and sometimes fingers. It seems to only affect young people.
“We don’t know for sure if it’s related to COVID-19, but when it’s so common right now during a pandemic and is occurring in otherwise asymptomatic or mildly affected patients, it seems too much of a coincidence not to be a manifestation of the virus for patients in their teens and 20s,” Amy Paller, the chair of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement.
