Is fever a new crown infection?

Fever is not always a COVID-19 infection, because there are many causes of fever. If the patient has a clear epidemiological history, such as exposure to COVID-19 infection, exposure to COVID-19 carriers, or comes from a medium-to high-risk area. Fever in this case requires high suspicion of COVID-19 infection. A hospital visit is required for viral nucleic acid testing and chest CT examination to rule out or diagnose COVID-19 infection. However, if there is no clear epidemiological history, showing fever, first of all need to consider other pathogenic infections, causing fever clinical most common is viral or bacterial infection. But under normal circumstances, it is difficult to determine whether it is viral or bacterial infection at home, you need to go to the hospital for basic blood routine and C-reactive protein examination to help determine whether it is viral or bacterial infection, because the treatment of the two is different.