We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

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In other cases, the rash may affect less common areas ... including COVID-19. In fact, children are "a little more prone to these skin reactions with viruses than adults are," Walls explains.