Month: March 2021

The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, a dry cough, and losing your sense of taste and smell. Other signs that are frequently seen include headaches, muscle and joint pain, nasal congestion, and fatigue.   A less common symptom are rashes of various forms. These have been slower to be reported, partly due to the wide variety that have appeared in COVID-19 patients, making it more challenging to establish a consistent correlation. Nevertheless, knowing how COVID-19 affects the skin is important. A recent study found that for 17 percent of COVID-19 patients with multiple symptoms, skin rashes were the first symptom to appear, while for 21 percent of patients rashes were their only symptom. Being able to identify the effects of COVID-19 on the skin may allow cases to be spotted...

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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 1,313 new coronavirus cases, even as the rate of positive tests continues to decline. Over the last seven days, 1.8% of people who were tested for the coronavirus were positive, down from more than 20% at the beginning of the year. The county also reported 22 deaths — probably an undercount due to a lag in reporting over the weekend. There are 1,176 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the county; nearly one-third are in intensive care. Hospitalizations have fallen by 50% in the last two weeks. Deaths and hospitalizations are both lagging indicators of the coronavirus’ spread, reflecting exposures that occurred several weeks before. A total of more than 1.2 million cases have been confirmed in L.A. County, and 22,0...

Infectious diseases expert Michael Osterholm is warning Americans not to let down their guard even as coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to drop.  “Let me just say we are in the eye of the hurricane right now,” Osterholm said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “It appears that things are going very well. We even see blue skies.”  But, Osterholm said the more infectious B.1.1.7. variant from the U.K. is surging beneath the surface. Responsible for just 1 to 4 percent of U.S. cases a month ago, the variant has now grown to 30 to 40 percent of cases.  “And we’ve seen in Europe when we hit that 50 percent mark, you’ll see cases surge,” Osterholm, who is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said.  Osterholm...