inclusion criteria: * adults ≥ 18 years of age * approval from the patient's primary inpatient service * hospitalized * fever, documented in electronic medical record and defined as: t ≥ 38 degrees c by any conventional clinical method (forehead, tympanic, oral, axillary, rectal) * positive test for active sars-cov-2 infection * radiographic evidence of infiltrates on chest radiograph (cxr) or computed tomography (ct) * ability to provide written informed consent on the part of the subject or, in the absence of decisional capacity of the subject, an appropriate surrogate (e.g. a legally authorized representative).

inclusion criteria: * adults ≥ 18 years of age * approval from the patient's primary inpatient service * hospitalized * fever, documented in electronic medical record and defined as: t ≥ 38 degrees c by any conventional clinical method (forehead, tympanic, oral, axillary, rectal) * positive test for active sars-cov-2 infection * radiographic evidence of infiltrates on chest radiograph (cxr) or computed tomography (ct) * ability to provide written informed consent on the part of the subject or, in the absence of decisional capacity of the subject, an appropriate surrogate (e.g. a legally authorized representative).

inclusion criteria: - adults ≥ 18 years of age - approval from the patient's primary inpatient service - hospitalized - fever, documented in electronic medical record and defined as: t ≥ 38 degrees c by any conventional clinical method (forehead, tympanic, oral, axillary, rectal) - positive test for active sars-cov-2 infection - radiographic evidence of infiltrates on chest radiograph (cxr) or computed tomography (ct) - ability to provide written informed consent on the part of the subject or, in the absence of decisional capacity of the subject, an appropriate surrogate (e.g. a legally authorized representative).

inclusion criteria: - adults ≥ 18 years of age - approval from the patient's primary inpatient service - hospitalized - fever, documented in electronic medical record and defined as: t ≥ 38 degrees c by any conventional clinical method (forehead, tympanic, oral, axillary, rectal) - positive test for active sars-cov-2 infection - radiographic evidence of infiltrates on chest radiograph (cxr) or computed tomography (ct) - ability to provide written informed consent on the part of the subject or, in the absence of decisional capacity of the subject, an appropriate surrogate (e.g. a legally authorized representative).