{"id":1691,"date":"2020-10-21T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:21:24","slug":"quantitative-assessment-of-olfactory-dysfunction-accurately-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/quantitative-assessment-of-olfactory-dysfunction-accurately-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative Assessment of Olfactory Dysfunction Accurately Detects Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A novel design of an olfactory-action meter, which measures how well a person smells odors, found that 82% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers (n=34) had olfactory deficits, compared to 13% of health volunteers. By comparison, only 15% of asymptomatic carriers had olfactory deficits detected by subjective evaluation. This method evaluated a combination of olfactory detection abilities at threshold levels and olfactory matching skills reflecting cognitive functioning.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bhattacharjee et al. (Oct 16, 2020). Quantitative Assessment of Olfactory Dysfunction Accurately Detects Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carriers. EClinicalMedicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100575\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100575<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel design of an olfactory-action meter, which measures how well a person smells odors, found that 82% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers (n=34) had olfactory deficits, compared to 13% of health volunteers. By comparison, only 15% of asymptomatic carriers had olfactory deficits detected by subjective evaluation. This method evaluated a combination of olfactory detection abilities&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/quantitative-assessment-of-olfactory-dysfunction-accurately-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-carriers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}