Case Report: Reactive Arthritis Following COVID-19

Samuel C. Purkey, DO, is a second-year resident physician in the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tenn.

James Z. Drew, MD, is a first-year resident physician in the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.

Marcum Collins, MD, is a rheumatologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.

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