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Coronavirus victims have taken to social media to share a variety of different symptoms they've experienced while fighting the virus.
And some are describing a more peculiar 'buzzing' or 'fizzing' sensation that doctors say could be a patient's body fighting off the infectious disease.
Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, had taken to Twitter on Thursday to share that her partner - who had tested positive for COVID-19 - had had 'sensitive skin' that felt like it was 'burning
'We literally used aloe gel for sunburn to soothe it,' she added in a detail thread on Twitter. 'The NP (nurse practitioner) later told us she had heard others say that too.'
The variation of the symptom has been deemed 'fizzing' or 'buzzing' by various other folks on Twitter.
Most describe the feeling the sensation in various parts of their body in addition to other commonly associated symptoms of the virus.
Some of the people who shared their experience with the buzzing insinuated that they had been feeling sick for an extended period of time, but that the sensation was a more recent development to how they were feeling.
One woman even described the sensation as 'like an electric feeling on my skin.'
The symptom is not that common, according to doctors, but may be part of the body's response in trying to recover from the virus.
'Clearly it's been identified, but we're just not sure yet how widespread it is,' Dr. Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious disease at ProHealth Care Associates, explained to the New York Post.
Griffin said that he has heard of the symptom but it is not the norm for the 50 or so coronavirus patients he sees a day.
Coronavirus patients report feeling a 'fizzing' and 'buzzing' sensation underneath and on their skin | Daily Mail Online
And some are describing a more peculiar 'buzzing' or 'fizzing' sensation that doctors say could be a patient's body fighting off the infectious disease.
Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, had taken to Twitter on Thursday to share that her partner - who had tested positive for COVID-19 - had had 'sensitive skin' that felt like it was 'burning
'We literally used aloe gel for sunburn to soothe it,' she added in a detail thread on Twitter. 'The NP (nurse practitioner) later told us she had heard others say that too.'
The variation of the symptom has been deemed 'fizzing' or 'buzzing' by various other folks on Twitter.
Most describe the feeling the sensation in various parts of their body in addition to other commonly associated symptoms of the virus.
Some of the people who shared their experience with the buzzing insinuated that they had been feeling sick for an extended period of time, but that the sensation was a more recent development to how they were feeling.
One woman even described the sensation as 'like an electric feeling on my skin.'
The symptom is not that common, according to doctors, but may be part of the body's response in trying to recover from the virus.
'Clearly it's been identified, but we're just not sure yet how widespread it is,' Dr. Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious disease at ProHealth Care Associates, explained to the New York Post.
Griffin said that he has heard of the symptom but it is not the norm for the 50 or so coronavirus patients he sees a day.
Coronavirus patients report feeling a 'fizzing' and 'buzzing' sensation underneath and on their skin | Daily Mail Online
