An-Najah News - Nablus - Assistant Professor of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Misha Rosenbach, explained that coronavirus patients can suffer from what the dermatological community called “corona toes,” and it appears like cutaneous “frostbite” skin, which usually pigments the skin red or purple, on the feet or the toes.

Rosenbach noted that these results of the cases that have been reported so far appear more in children and young adults, a group of the population that can be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms of coronavirus than in older individuals.

According to the study, skin conditions such as rash with COVID-19 have also been reported, but, complicating matters, these types of rashes are also generally seen as reactions or occasional responses to medications or other viral infections.

It is noteworthy that last week, to help further determine the results of skin examinations for coronavirus patients, the COVID-19 Task Force of the American Academy of Dermatology announced an online registration of health care providers around the world to report skin results.

The Dermatologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the COVID-19 Task Force, Dr. Esther Freeman, who has started collecting skin conditions associated with the Coronavirus, has reported that so far 130 cases have been registered.