Dr. Marc Siegel: Only 30 Percent of the Cases Hospitalized in New York Had Fever

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SIEGEL: “Sandra, this is hugely important. This is part of a study that showed among people being hospitalized in New York, over 5,000 people, only 30% had fever. Only 30 percent had marked shortness of breath. Well we thought that’s what you had to have. People don’t have fevers most of the time. A lot of times they have loss of sense of smell or taste, diary or nausea, and as you said they may have headache and dizziness. It’s not flu season anymore so when an elderly person comes to me and they just feel out of sorts, maybe they are dizzy or maybe they have a headache, maybe they have a nausea, especially if they have the loss of sense of smell, I start to think of covid-19. Also, who have they been in touch with? Were there with someone that we know how to case? Were they with someone that had more classic symptoms? We have to do all of that as physicians to figure out who might have it and whom needs to be tested.”