American experts have identified a new symptom coronavirus infection, it is called "coronavirus fingers". About it reports USA Today.
As noted, when a new symptom affects the toes, they become blue or purple.
According to the infectious diseases from the University of Pennsylvania of the Ebbing Lautenbach, in these spots also the patient feels a burning sensation and pain when you touch it.
This is a manifestation of the virus as occurs in heavy patients and in young patients with asymptomatic course of the disease, including in children.
Lautenbach believes that the blue discoloration of fingers is associated with local inflammatory response to infection or manifestation of thrombosis.
The head of emergency services at the hospital of Massachusetts Susan Wilcox is confident that these symptoms are common in patients with severe influenza or viral pneumonia.
December 31, 2019, the Chinese government announced the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan. The causative agent is a new type of coronavirus, which has the official name COVID-19. March 11, the world health organization (who) declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to the latest data, in Russia revealed 68 622 cases of human infection with the new coronavirus type in the world — 2.7 million
