"C à vous": this new "very specific" symptom of coronavirus: Current Woman Le MAG

The coronavirus crisis does not stop Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. The host is always live Monday through Friday in C to you to come back to the news alongside his faithful columnist Patrick Cohen. Each evening, the duo invites a specialist or a personality to answer the questions posed by viewers concerned about the pandemic which has already killed 10,869 people in France, according to the latest official figures. Wednesday April 8, 2020, Professor Patrick Berche, member of the National Academy of Medicine and former director of the Institut Pasteur, was on the set of the France 5 show. The opportunity for Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to evoke an unknown symptom of the coronavirus: skin lesions.

What do skin lesions look like?

The National Union of Dermatologists and Venereologists is now warning about certain cutaneous manifestations of the coronavirus, which resemble hives. "It seems to be quite specific to the coronavirus", pointed out the doctor. Asked by 20 minutes, dermatologist Catherine Oliverès-Ghouti described what these irruptions looked like: "The skin lesions observed are pseudo-frostbite: 'pseudo' because it looks like frostbite, but which is not caused by exposure of the skin to humid cold. This is manifested by slightly swollen redness on the backs of the hands, fingers and toes", she said before adding that the lesions did not scratch and burn, but were still a bit painful.

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