Special Issue Article - Current Pediatric Research (2020) Volume 24, Issue 9

Fever is not a symptom in COVID-19, None of the diseases require fever as its symptom

 We have been hearing for centuries that ‘fever is not a disease but a symptom’. Physicians say that fever is a symptom of diseases like flu to cancer. The conservative fever definition, diagnosis, and treatments are based on fever as a symptom. All the studies related to fever as a symptom of a disease have been done without knowing the Purpose of the temperature of fever is. Without knowing the Purpose of the temperature of fever, how can fever included in the symptom definition?

Author(s): K. M. Yacob

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