Pink-Eye Joins COVID-19 Symptoms List

A cross-sectional study of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in China, published by JAMA on August 26, 2020, presented with a series of onset symptoms including fever, cough, and ocular manifestations, such as conjunctival discharge, eye rubbing, and conjunctival congestion. This study found that 23% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had conjunctival discharge, congestion, and eye rubbing.

This means those COVID-19 patients with systemic coronavirus symptoms or cough were most likely to have ocular symptoms, known as 'pink eye.'