A Skin Rash May Be a New, Rare Sign of Coronavirus, According to Doctors

Of those, half established a rash when they first began showing signs of the virus, and the other half established the rash after they were hospitalized.

The rash revealed up in different methods: The most common kind was an erythematous rash, which triggers irregular, red skin.

Another report published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology discovered that one patient in Thailand with a validated case of COVID-19 developed a skin rash called petechiae, which are small, circular patches that aren’t raised.
Rajeev Fernando, M.D., an infectious disease professional in Southampton, New York, says he’s seen a rash “a lot” in COVID-19 clients. “It’s frequently an erythematous rash,” he states. “Often the rash is diffused, or spread out, and other times it’s localized to one area,” Dr. Fernando states.

Why would the novel coronavirus trigger a skin rash?

It’s most likely that the infection causes some type of inflammation in the skin that leads to the rash, says Gary Goldenberg, M.D., assistant scientific teacher of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medication at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Rashes are pretty common outside of COVID-19, and they can be caused by a slew of different things, including easy skin irritation, Dr. Fernando points out.