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Clin Otolaryngol
. 2020 Dec 6.
doi: 10.1111/coa.13683. Online ahead of print.
Course of symptoms for loss of sense of smell and taste over time in one thousand forty-one healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Our experience
Matthias Lechner[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Jacklyn Liu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Nicholas Counsell[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ngan Hong Ta[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP], John Rocke[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Rajesh Anmolsingh[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Nicholas Eynon-Lewis[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sandtdeep Paun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Claire Hopkins[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Sadie Khwaja[SUP] 7 [/SUP], B Nirma L Kumar[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Samuel Jayaraj[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Valerie J Lund[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Carl Philpott[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP]
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Abstract
On April 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and on May 5, 2020, the World Health Organisation added 'new loss of taste or smell' to their list of symptoms related to Covid-19, respectively. Public Health England (PHE) only included loss of smell and taste as official symptoms on May 20[SUP]th[/SUP] . However, whether individual hospitals were including smell and taste disturbances in their initial work-up for Covid-19 diagnosis is unknown.
Keywords: coronavirus; mass screening; olfaction disorders; pandemics; public health.
. 2020 Dec 6.
doi: 10.1111/coa.13683. Online ahead of print.
Course of symptoms for loss of sense of smell and taste over time in one thousand forty-one healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Our experience
Matthias Lechner[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Jacklyn Liu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Nicholas Counsell[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ngan Hong Ta[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP], John Rocke[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Rajesh Anmolsingh[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Nicholas Eynon-Lewis[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sandtdeep Paun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Claire Hopkins[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Sadie Khwaja[SUP] 7 [/SUP], B Nirma L Kumar[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Samuel Jayaraj[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Valerie J Lund[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Carl Philpott[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP]
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- PMID: 33283459
- DOI: 10.1111/coa.13683
Abstract
On April 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and on May 5, 2020, the World Health Organisation added 'new loss of taste or smell' to their list of symptoms related to Covid-19, respectively. Public Health England (PHE) only included loss of smell and taste as official symptoms on May 20[SUP]th[/SUP] . However, whether individual hospitals were including smell and taste disturbances in their initial work-up for Covid-19 diagnosis is unknown.
Keywords: coronavirus; mass screening; olfaction disorders; pandemics; public health.