Here’s what you need to know:
- Some governors face growing resistance as many businesses open their doors around the country.
- The F.D.A. issues the expected authorization for emergency use of a new virus treatment.
- The White House blocks Fauci from appearing before Congress.
- New Jersey is now reporting more virus deaths than New York.
- Michigan’s governor will ease some restrictions after armed protests and a tweet from Trump.
- A nuclear power plant in Georgia has confirmed an outbreak involving 171 workers.
- More than 4,000 workers in meatpacking plants have the virus, the C.D.C. says.
Some governors face growing resistance as many businesses open their doors around the country.
In Houston, the gleaming Galleria Mall was open again, but not all of its stores, and the ample close-in parking suggested some customers were wary of returning. In Mobile, Ala., a venerable boutique decided to reopen with one dressing room, so it could be disinfected between uses. And in Galveston, Tex., beachgoers returned to the shore.
The sweeping orders that kept roughly nine out of 10 Americans at home in recent weeks gave way on Friday to a patchwork of state and local measures allowing millions of people to return to restaurants, movie theaters and malls for the first time in a month or more.
Iowa loosened restrictions in some counties, but not others. In Davenport, which is still under restrictions, Glory Smith, 41, questioned that logic, since the virus does not respect county boundaries.
“It is like having a smoking section on a plane or in a restaurant,” she said. “It doesn’t work.”
But as more states, like Texas, began to reopen on Friday, the governors of California, Illinois, Louisiana and Michigan contended with challenges to their authority to shutter at least some parts of public life.
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She ordered Michigan to stay on lockdown through mid-May. He thinks the measures are too extreme.President Trump has voiced support for protests against restrictions, even as federal guidance urged Americans to avoid large gatherings to help stem the spread of the virus. The Justice Department has signaled that it might endorse court challenges pushing back against some rules.
In addition to Texas, reopenings of certain businesses or public spaces were expected on Friday in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In Colorado and Oklahoma, which had already made moves to reopen, Friday marked an expansion, with new businesses set to reopen. And in Tennessee, a stay-at-home order expired at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, making Friday the first day where more movement was permitted.
By next week, nearly half the states will have made moves toward reopening their economies. In some states, reopenings have happened even as cases were still increasing or remaining steady, raising concerns among public health experts about a surge in new cases that might not be detectable for up to two weeks.
As some states and localities eased restrictions, others extended them.
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington said Friday that he was extending the state’s stay-at-home order until at least the end of May.
“I would like to tell you that you can make reservations on June 1, but I cannot,” he said.
In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized a lockdown of the town of Gallup on Friday in an effort to curtail virus surging deaths that have the state’s tribal nations on edge.
The Navajo Nation has been grappling with a severe outbreak: As of Thursday, the tribal nation had reported a total of 2,141 cases and 71 confirmed deaths. The Navajo Nation’s president, Jonathan Nez, said he fully supported the lockdown order. “We have many members of the Navajo Nation that reside in Gallup and many that travel in the area and their health and safety is always our top priority,” said Mr. Nez.
Some cities and states are seeing increasing cases of the virus like Massachusetts; Worthington, Minn., a city in the southwest corner of the state; and Green Bay, Wis., which were singled out in a recent federal government briefing obtained by The Times. The briefing also noted that federal officials are monitoring North Carolina, where cases have increased and stay-at-home orders are set to expire on May 8.
The F.D.A. issues the expected authorization for emergency use of a new virus treatment.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued an emergency approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for patients with Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The approval, formally called an emergency use authorization, had been expected following modestly encouraging results from a federal trial, announced on Wednesday.
The trial found that patients receiving remdesivir recovered more quickly: in 11 days, versus 15 in a group receiving a placebo. But the drug, made by Gilead Sciences, did not significantly reduce fatality rates.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Friday afternoon, the president announced the F.D.A. approval and called it “an important treatment for hospitalized coronavirus patients.”
The president said that he was “pleased” that Gilead had received its emergency authorization. “And you know what, that is because that’s been the hot thing in the papers and in the media for the last little while — an important treatment for hospitalized coronavirus patients,” he said.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the coordinator of the virus task force, said that the F.D.A. approval of remdesivir “really illustrates what can happen in such a short time” noting how fast the approval followed the first known cases in the United States.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top expert on infectious diseases, said earlier this week that the results were “a very important proof of concept” but not a “knockout.”
The White House blocks Fauci from appearing before Congress.
The White House is preventing Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from testifying before the House next week, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee said on Friday.
Top Democrats on the panel had wanted Dr. Fauci to testify as part of an in-person hearing led by Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, who oversees the subcommittee responsible for funding health, labor and education agencies and programs. But when the committee asked for Dr. Fauci to appear, the Trump administration denied the request and the committee was told by an administration official that it was because of the White House, according to Evan Hollander, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.
A White House spokesman defended the decision as aimed at keeping the administration focused on its response to the virus. “It is counterproductive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts appearing at congressional hearings,” said the spokesman, Judd Deere. “We are committed to working with Congress to offer testimony at the appropriate time.”
The Washington Post first reported the White House’s decision.
Dr. Fauci, one of the most visible faces of the administration’s fight against the coronavirus, has often quietly contradicted many of Mr. Trump’s statements on how the administration is handling the outbreak and how quickly the country will be able to recover.
But the White House has directed government health officials and scientists to coordinate all statements and public appearances with Vice President Mike Pence’s office, in an effort to streamline the administration’s messaging. Dr. Fauci told associates in February that he had been instructed not to say anything else without clearance, but has become a media fixture as the toll of the pandemic has grown.
New Jersey is now reporting more virus deaths than New York.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey reported another 311 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday. It was a drop from Thursday, when the state reported 460 deaths. State health officials explained on Friday that the number of deaths reported on any given day includes many deaths that can go back weeks and are newly classified as virus-related.
But it was the second straight day that New Jersey reported more deaths than New York, which has more than twice as many people. On Friday, New York reported that 289 more people had died, the first time the one-day death toll fell below 300 since March 30. New hospitalizations for the virus in New York remained in the mid-900s for the fourth straight day, a sign of a plateau that its governor found troubling.
Even as the virus’s effects have waned in New York, New Jersey’s progress against the virus remains days or weeks behind. In the last few days, virus patients have been dying, entering hospitals, remaining in hospitals, and testing positive in New Jersey at considerably higher rates, per capita, than in New York.
Mr. Murphy’s announcement came as New Jersey’s state and county parks are all set to reopen on Saturday. So are golf courses, with extensive social distancing rules in place.
He said New Jersey residents were being “trusted” with a big test this weekend, and he urged people to wear masks and avoid “knucklehead behavior with people ignoring social distancing.”
In New York, schools across the state will remain shuttered through the end of the school year, its governor said Friday, confirming what other officials had previously said was inevitable. He has said some parts of the state might be able to gradually reopen businesses on May 15, excluding New York City and the surrounding region.
In Connecticut, the governor on Thursday outlined a plan for restarting the state’s economy with some retailers, offices, hair and nail salons, outdoor restaurants and outdoor recreation facilities reopening by May 20, if infections and hospitalizations kept declining. He emphasized that businesses would not be required to open.
Michigan’s governor will ease some restrictions after armed protests and a tweet from Trump.
A day after a boisterous rally that drew hundreds of people, some of them armed, to Michigan’s capitol to protest strict statewide stay-at-home orders, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifted some restrictions in the state, agreeing to allow some construction and outdoor work to resume May 7.
The construction work includes companies that manufacture partitions and cubicles that eventually will allow for people to safely return to offices and other businesses, she said.
“It’s going to be one step at a time, in increments,” Ms. Whitmer said of her decisions on reopening parts of the state’s economy.
The governor spoke Friday afternoon at a news conference, which she opened by thanking janitors who cleaned up after Thursday’s rally and security officers who kept order during an event she called “disturbing.” The rally included unmasked protesters who did not adhere to social-distancing rules and who the governor said were wielding assault rifles, confederate flags and swastikas.
President Trump on Friday urged Ms. Whitmer to “give a little,” writing that the protesters were “very good people, but they are angry.”
“I know some people are angry and I know many people are feeling restless and are itching to get back to work,” Ms. Whitmer said. “There’s nothing I want more than to just flip the switch and get back to normal, but that’s not how it’s going to work unfortunately.”
Michigan is one of several states with a Democratic governor and Republican-controlled legislature that is mired in partisan bitterness. Ms. Whitmer on Thursday had signed emergency orders extending some of the most severe stay-at-home orders in the nation after Republican lawmakers had blocked her other attempts to extend stay-at-home orders.
Asked about Mr. Trump’s tweet, Ms. Whitmer emphasized that the crisis facing the state was not a political crisis that could be negotiated away, but a crisis of public health.
“We have to listen not to pollsters and not just people with political agendas but to epidemiologists,” she said, adding, “We’re making decisions based on science, not on a tweet.”
A nuclear power plant in Georgia has confirmed an outbreak involving 171 workers.
More than 150 workers on a construction project in a nuclear power facility in Georgia have tested positive for the coronavirus, and absenteeism has “increased dramatically,” according to documents and a spokesman for Georgia Power, the utility company that is a part owner of the facility.
The facility, Plant Vogtle, is near Waynesboro, Ga., about 150 miles east of Atlanta, and has been in operation since 1987. It is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar expansion that has been plagued with setbacks, including construction problems, cost overruns and the 2016 bankruptcy of Westinghouse, its lead contractor.
As of March, the expansion employed more than 9,000 workers, making it the largest construction project in the state, according to North America’s Building Trades Unions, which represents many of the Vogtle workers.
But after concerns about the spread of the virus mounted in recent weeks, the plant’s owners reduced the work force on the expansion project by 20 percent.
Of the 171 workers found to have the coronavirus, 90 are “active confirmed positive cases” and 81 are workers who recovered and are “available to return to work,” John Kraft, the spokesman for Georgia Power, said in an email late Thursday. Mr. Kraft said that 439 workers tested negative, and that 48 were awaiting test results.
The owners learned of the first worker to test positive on April 4, Mr. Kraft said. Around that time, some workers told a local TV station that they were concerned that not enough was being done to protect them from the virus on the work site.
The smaller work force, Mr. Kraft said, will allow for increased social distancing. The site has banned large group meetings, expanded an on-site medical clinic, and added portable bathrooms and hand-washing stations, among other changes. And testing will continue.
Last week, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia began taking aggressive steps to reopen sectors of the Georgia economy, including hair salons, barber shops and bowling alleys.
More than 4,000 workers in meatpacking plants have the virus, the C.D.C. says.
At least 4,193 workers at 115 meatpacking plants in the United States have been infected with the virus, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Twenty of those workers have died, the report said. And the data almost certainly understates the scale of the problem, because not all states with infections at meat plants have reported figures to the C.D.C.
In total, the meat and poultry processing industry employs about half a million people, many of whom work in cramped conditions in slaughterhouses where social distancing is practically impossible. Over the last month, dozens of meatpacking plants have been forced to close because of outbreaks, straining the country’s meat supply.
This week, the president issued an executive order that gave officials at the Department of Agriculture the authority to take some limited actions to keep plants running, even when local authorities call for them to close.
The C.D.C. report also lays out recommendations for meatpacking plants to keep workers safe, like installing barriers between workers and requiring face covering.
Stocks, including Amazon and Apple, fell amid concerns about tensions between the U.S. and China.
U.S. stocks fell on Friday as investors reacted to signs of growing tensions between China and the United States as well as earnings reports by Apple and Amazon that showed the depth of the pandemic’s impact on big business.
Both the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell about 3 percent.
Amazon shares dropped by more than 7 percent. Despite the delivery and web-services giant reporting surging sales in the first quarter, investors focused on the rising costs of delivering products amid the health crisis. Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder, said the expense of protecting workers, including providing protective equipment and Covid-19 tests, could swing the company to a loss of as much as $1.5 billion in the current quarter.
Apple stock dipped, after the company refused on Thursday to give any estimates for the current quarter. But the tech giant signaled confidence by announcing another big stock buyback, and said that its first-quarter revenue rose nearly 1 percent to $58.3 billion, despite lockdowns in China, where it assembles nearly all of its products.
Investors also grew leery of signs of returning tensions between the Trump administration and China. In recent days, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its rhetoric blaming China for the spread of the pandemic. On Thursday, the president speculated that a Chinese laboratory could have released the virus.
“The China issue is definitely playing a large role today,” Matthew J. Maley with Miller Tabak, a trading and asset management firm, wrote in an email.
Regardless of the reason, the market was due for a cooling-off period.
For more than a month, stocks have rallied despite a steady drumbeat of negative news about the state of the American economy. Even with a retreat on Thursday, Wall Street closed out the month of April with a gain of nearly 13 percent, its best performance since 1987. And despite the slide on Friday, the S&P 500 remains up more than 25 percent since it hit bottom on March 23.
It’s college acceptance day. But a lot of students appear to be avoiding the big decision.
Shaken by economic hardship, health fears and uncertainty about when campuses will reopen, a large number of high school seniors appear to be putting off a decision about where to go to college in the fall — or whether to go at all.
College admissions officers are reluctant to admit weakness, meaning there is little hard data at this point. But there are clear signs of concern about plummeting enrollment and lost revenue. Of some 700 universities with a May 1 acceptance deadline, which include many of the country’s most competitive, about half have already given students an extra month to decide, said Marie Bigham, founder of Accept, a college admissions reform group.
Many students said they do not want to make a decision about the fall until they know for sure whether campuses will reopen. Johnny Kennevan, a senior at Seneca High School in Tabernacle, N.J., was recruited to play basketball at York College in Pennsylvania. But his plans would likely change if the campus is still closed, he said.
“It doesn’t make sense to pay 20 grand to sit at my computer at home and take online courses,” he said. “You can get the same education from a community college.”
Some schools are waiving deposit requirements, particularly for foreign students, who are especially valuable to universities because most pay full tuition. And experts say that the number of wait-listed students who are now getting offers shows that even some of the most selective schools are acting more aggressively to fill freshman classes.
“People are coming off wait lists all over the place right now,” said Debra Felix, a former admissions director at Columbia University who now runs her own student advising service. She added, “It tells me that the yeses are coming back very slowly, or people are getting back to them quickly with nos.”
Since mid-March, when colleges abruptly shut down campus operations and moved to online learning, schools have announced hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and say that a $14 billion federal aid package won’t be nearly enough to keep struggling schools afloat. Executives have taken pay cuts, endowments have shrunk, hiring has been frozen and construction projects have stopped.
But experts say that’s only the beginning if schools can’t persuade students to return in the fall, when many campuses are bracing for the possibility that online learning could continue.
As stay-at-home orders lift, individuals are wrestling with decisions that feel life-or-death.
Across the country this week, Americans whose governors said it was time to get back to work wrestled with what felt like an impossible choice.
If they go back to work, will they get sick and infect their families? If they refuse, will they lose their jobs? What if they work on tips and there are no customers? If they are businesses owners, will there be enough work to rehire employees?
When Maine announced this week that hair salons could reopen, Sarah Kyllonen, a stylist in Lewiston, stayed up late wondering what to do, feeling overwhelmed.
The virus still scared her. It seemed too soon to open up. Then again, her bills had not stopped and her unemployment benefits had not started, and she was starting to worry about next month’s rent. “It’s an extremely hard decision for all of us,” she said. “I want to go back to work. I want to have the money. I want to see people. But it’s hard because I’m worried about the virus coming back around.”
At The Holiday, a women’s clothing boutique that has been in Mobile, Ala., since 1955, stickers had been placed six feet apart on the pavement outside. A hand-washing station had been set up just inside the door. Every dressing room had been closed but one, and a single employee was assigned to sanitize it after every customer.
“We’ve been cleaning and sanitizing that store for a week now,” Mary-Lacey Zeiders, one of its owners, said Friday morning as the store prepared to reopen after more than a month.
The store was preparing to reopen after Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama eased restrictions this week, allowing businesses to reopen with reduced capacity. Ms. Zeiders said her store was only allowing eight patrons in at a time, or five percent of its fire capacity. Customers at the store, which is something of an institution in Mobile, will be required to wear masks.
“We are either going to see a surge of people coming out because they’re bored and ready to get out of their house, and it’s going to be crazy and nonstop, and we’re going to have to manage our people flow,” Ms. Zeiders said. “Or it’s not going to be any different than it has been.”
“I think it could go both ways,” she said.
Demonstrators and officials in Illinois, Michigan, California and Louisiana resist governors’ stay-at-home orders.
Hundreds of protesters converged on the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield and in downtown Chicago on Friday, demanding that Gov. J.B. Pritzker lift the stay-at-home order that he extended until May 29.
At the Capitol, demonstrators crowded beneath a statue of Abraham Lincoln and chanted, “Open Illinois!” Most did not have face coverings, and some wore “Make America Great Again” hats.
The protest came on the heels of a similar demonstration in Michigan on Thursday: Hundreds of people, some of them armed, converged on the State Capitol in Lansing to protest the stay-at-home orders put in place by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
In Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards’s decision to extend a stay-at-home order has also been met with an upswell of outrage. And in California, hundreds of people gathered in Huntington Beach on Friday to protest against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s directive to close beaches in Orange County.
Officials across the country are trying to strike a balance between prioritizing public health and stanching the economic devastation. In some states, the divide has become starkly partisan and increasingly rancorous.
Michigan, Louisiana, California and Illinois are all run by Democratic governors who have recently moved to extend stay-at-home orders. All have faced pushback from Republican state officials, and protests against their orders have doubled as rallies for conservative causes.
“The people of Louisiana are about to revolt,” said Danny McCormick, a Republican state representative who organized a rally scheduled for Saturday outside of the governor’s mansion. Some lawmakers there have been plotting to overturn the governor’s order, potentially leaving Louisiana as the only state in the nation without an emergency declaration in place.
“That would just be completely irresponsible and nonsensical,” Mr. Edwards said at a news conference on Thursday, “to be the only state in the nation without an emergency declaration in place for the public health emergency of Covid-19.”
In Illinois, James Marter, a Republican running for Congress, spoke at the rally in Springfield and decried that liquor stores and marijuana shops remained open, and that abortions continued. “We the people, are losing our freedoms everyday at a blinding speed,” he said according to a video that was briefly posted on Facebook by one of the rally’s organizers.
And in California, Mr. Newsom, who moved to shut down the beaches in Orange County after they drew large crowds, is facing resistance to some of his measures. A crowd gathered again at Huntington Beach on Friday, and videos showed hundreds of people demonstrating, mostly without masks, and waving American flags while chanting “No More Newsom.”
The Huntington Beach City Council voted Thursday night to sue the state over the beach ban, and the City Council in nearby Newport Beach appeared poised to follow, according to local media reports.
Polls show that a majority of Americans support social distancing measures, and some lonely demonstrators are trying to prove that point.
A lawyer in Florida, Daniel W. Uhlfelder, tried to sue Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to demand statewide beach closures. He said he was planning to tour beaches in the Panhandle in a Grim Reaper costume to draw attention to the risk of the virus and warn people away from the beaches there.
“It’s going to be a public health disaster,” Mr. Uhlfelder said. “It’s going to be a magnet.”
As Texas lets stores reopen, ample parking at the mall suggests customers are still wary.
On Friday, in newly reopened Texas, Janet Leone did what many Houstonians took for granted in the days before the pandemic: Go to the mall.
Ms. Leone strolled through the gleaming, brightly lit levels of the Galleria Mall, more than an hour after it opened for the first time in weeks. Few shoppers were there, and many of the stores were closed. Ms. Leone wore a white face mask, and some of her fellow shoppers did, too, but many others were unmasked.
“It feels pretty safe — nobody’s here,” said Ms. Leone, a Houston speech pathologist, adding that she did not even mind that many of the shops were closed. “It was more about just getting out of the house and walking around.”
Amid a pandemic that has killed more than 800 Texans, the state was ending its stay-at-home order weeks before some of the benchmark epidemiological models suggested doing so. And the World Health Organization extended its declaration of a global health emergency on Friday, which it had first announced in January.
The mall, which is owned by Simon Property Group, opened its doors again as part of the governor’s partial reopening, which allowed movie theaters, malls and other retail shops to reopen, although they are required to limit their capacity to 25 percent of their listed occupancy.
At the Galleria, there was ample close-in parking, a rarity.
People, including many parents with small children, came and went as they pleased, slowly strolling by the closed ice-skating rink and the shuttered Starbucks. Gucci was open; Lego was not. The mall management posted signs informing shoppers that masks and daily temperature testing were required for employees, and that shoppers could receive masks or have their temperature tested at the mall office.
Sergey Yegorov, 26, an oil field worker originally from Kazakhstan, said he felt safe as he walked unmasked with his wife and two children. “Whoever was sick, they were already treated,” Mr. Yegorov said.
Officials and public health experts in Texas’ largest cities warned that a second wave of the virus was possible if the reopening caused a widespread decrease in social distancing.
“As long as we’re reporting new cases,” Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston told reporters this week, “and as long as we’re reporting people who are dying, and as long as we can’t tell you that this virus is out of here, then you need to be very, very, very careful.”
On L.A.’s first day of free testing for all, nearly 10,000 people were tested.
As several states started to reopen on Friday, Los Angeles was focused on what public health officials have warned is necessary before safely throwing open the doors of many businesses: wide-scale testing.
Los Angeles became the largest city in the country to offer free testing to anyone, regardless of symptoms, a significant ramping up of testing that officials in California have said is required before tentative steps to open the economy can be taken in the coming weeks.
Since the start of the pandemic, California has lagged behind other states like New York, whose population is half that of California’s, in testing, but has begun closing the gap. As of Wednesday California had administered about 603,139 tests, compared with 872,481 in New York, which is a less-populous state.
On Thursday, the first day of free testing for all in Los Angeles, nearly 10,000 people were tested, about the three times the previous day. Mayor Eric M. Garcetti announced that any of Los Angeles County’s 12 million residents could get a free test at any of the city’s testing sites, even though county health officials are still advising testing be limited to those with symptoms and the most vulnerable.
Mr. Garcetti said the city had hundreds of thousands of test kits on hand, and would be buying more to keep up with the number of residents rushing to get tested.
“So we will continue to scale testing and order more to meet the demand day by day,” Mr. Garcetti said Thursday at his daily news conference. “You don’t have to wonder if that cough is Covid. You don’t have to wonder if you were exposed to somebody you know had or you think had Covid. You can go get tested now.”
California is taking a more cautious approach to reopening than other states, with leaders saying the state is still weeks away from deciding how and when to begin opening shops, restaurants and parks. California’s death rate from Covid-19 is far lower than New York, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has expressed optimism that the state is slowing the spread of infections and could soon, albeit slowly, open some businesses.
Are toe lesions a strange sign of a virus infection?
Before the outbreak, Dr. Lindy Fox, a dermatologist in San Francisco, used to see four or five patients a year with chilblains — painful red or purple lesions that typically emerge on fingers or toes in the winter. Over the past few weeks, she has seen dozens.
“All of a sudden, we are inundated with toes,” Dr. Fox said. “I’ve got clinics filled with people coming in with new toe lesions.”
In Boston, Dr. Esther Freeman, director of global health dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, said her telemedicine clinic was also “completely full of toes.” She said she added “extra clinical sessions just to take care of toe consults.”
The lesions are emerging as yet another telltale symptom of infection with the virus. The most prominent signs are a dry cough and shortness of breath, but the virus has been linked to a string of unusual and diverse effects, like mental confusion and a diminished sense of smell.
Federal health officials do not include toe lesions in the list of symptoms, but some dermatologists are pushing for a change, saying so-called Covid toe should be sufficient grounds for testing. (Covid-19 is the name of the illness caused by the virus.)
Most cases have been reported in children, teens and young adults. Scientists are just beginning to study the phenomenon, but so far chilblain-like lesions appear to signal a mild or even asymptomatic infection.
They may also develop several weeks after the acute phase of an infection is over.
While dermatologists say it is not unusual for rashes to appear along with viral infections — like measles or chickenpox — the toe lesions surprised them.
It is unclear why the new virus might cause chilblain-like lesions. One hypothesis is that they are caused by inflammation, a prominent feature of Covid-19. Inflammation also causes one of the most serious syndromes associated with it, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
“This should be a criteria for testing, just like loss of smell and shortness of breath and chest pain,” Dr. Fox said.
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