An Unusual Case Report of COVID-19 Presenting with Meningitis Symptoms and Shingles
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Packwood, Rebecca; Galletta, Gayle; Tennyson, Joseph
Introduction: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads across the globe, physicians face the challenges of a contagious pandemic including which patients to isolate, how to conserve personal protective equipment, and who to test. The current protocol at our hospital is to place anyone with new cough, dyspnea, or fever into airborne and contact precautions and consider them for testing. Unfortunately, the symptomatic presentations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are proving more variable than previously thought.
2020
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
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Packwood, Rebecca; Galletta, Gayle; Tennyson, Joseph