Coronavirus Update: Two-thirds of seriously ill COVID-19 patients didn’t have fever, study finds
With New York being the epicenter for the virus in the U.S., researchers from the state’s largest health care system moved quickly to document findings that would help others identify and treat COVID-19 patients. One thing stood out in the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The most surprising finding to me was that two-thirds of the patients who were seriously ill with an active infection did not have a fever,” said senior researcher Karina Davidson, PhD.
Fever is the first symptom doctors look for, but Davidson said the sickest patients didn’t present with a fever.
https://abc7.com/coronavirus-news-update-symptoms/6123325/
I’ve seen other reports of no fever, but with other symptoms present, like low oxygen levels, etc. This is a very weird pathogen...maybe different strains have varying symptoms? My niece is doing much better. She’s practically back to her old mischievous self again. :)
It makes sense that those who were “seriously ill” had no fever if it was a sign of a compromised innate immune system, or the virus somehow avoiding the innate immune responses, including fever. I posted a link yesterday that proposed that the innate immune response might be more critical than the adaptive immune response.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.13.20040980v2.full.pdf