Skin rashes could be added to NHS official list of symptoms

[Northerner]

Scientists have called for skin rashes to be added to the official NHS symptom list for coronavirus.

A new study suggests skin rashes may in fact be a tell-tale sign that someone has contracted Covid-19.

Academics at King’s College London looked at data taken from 20,000 Brits who had tested positive for Covid-19, or were strongly suspected of having the virus.

They found 9% of coronavirus sufferers had experienced skin rashes, while 8% of people with other symptoms also had the skin ailment.

Skin rashes could be added to NHS official list of symptoms

Academics at King's College London found that 9% of coronavirus sufferers had experienced skin rashes.

metro.co.uk

 

[Amity Island]

Scientists have called for skin rashes to be added to the official NHS symptom list for coronavirus.

A new study suggests skin rashes may in fact be a tell-tale sign that someone has contracted Covid-19.

Academics at King’s College London looked at data taken from 20,000 Brits who had tested positive for Covid-19, or were strongly suspected of having the virus.

They found 9% of coronavirus sufferers had experienced skin rashes, while 8% of people with other symptoms also had the skin ailment.

Skin rashes could be added to NHS official list of symptoms

Academics at King's College London found that 9% of coronavirus sufferers had experienced skin rashes.

metro.co.uk

Adding skin rashes to an already more than sufficient "set of symptoms" and testing will cause a mass public scare and vilify innocent people as if like lepers or zombies.

How many people have eczema? psoriasis? Other rashes? Will all these people now be treated like criminals if seen outside of their home showing a rash? How will they be able to ever leave their house as long as they have a rash? Even if they have proof of a negative test, how are they going to prove this to everyone they meet?

 

[mikeyB]

Quite. My guess is that the broken skin from scratching may perhaps be an avenue of entry for the virus (scratch rash, touch face) but as this is the only report anywhere in the world of skin rashes, I suspect something else is going on. Everybody know stress can worsen eczema, and it seems to worsen psoriasis too. For sure, that's not a viral rash in the photographs.

Apart from anything else, some of these folk are saying that the rash has been there for weeks before Covid became evident. Medical nonsense. In every other viral rash, the rash appears after you feel ill.

 

[Amity Island]

some of these folk are saying that the rash has been there for weeks before Covid became evident.

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