5. Chills
Chills are one of the symptoms that are often associated with fevers, and for good reason. Chill, or shivering, is one of the body’s ways of increasing its core temperature. Increased core temperature? That’s basically the body inducing itself to have a fever. As mentioned earlier, a feverish body is an unconducive environment for a virus or bacteria. Thus, when the body is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the body will induce a series of muscular contractions to generate heat within itself. This series of muscular contractions is the shivering, or chill, that people with COVID-19 would experience, as the body tries to produce a fever that will make itself unconducive to the virus.
Chills are not exclusive to COVID-19, so having chills will not mean you have the disease. It means you could have COVID-19, or you could have some other virus or bacteria, and the body is trying to produce the fever to fight the infection. It also means you need to be careful about extra exposure because your immune system is either busy fighting the current infection, it might not be able to handle another one, or your immune system is down, and so getting hit with another pathogen could make you sicker. Whichever it is, you will need to observe yourself (or whoever is the sick one) for the other signs and symptoms listed in this article, and you might have to check with a Medical Doctor.
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