It is possible for a patient with a new type of pneumonia to have generalized chills. Patients with fever and any condition that causes an increase in body temperature, whether it is a cold, pneumonia, meningitis, etc., may feel a generalized chill as long as their body temperature is elevated. In many cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia, the fever lasts for 72 hours and the antipyretic medication is not very effective, so the patient may have a generalized chill during this time. Feeling chilled is the body’s response to high fever. Therefore, patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia may have generalized chills, or they may not have generalized chills if the onset of the disease is not accompanied by a rise in body temperature, or if the symptoms are not obvious. Content source: Dr. Yurei