{"id":3157,"date":"2021-01-11T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:18:42","slug":"the-importance-of-anosmia-ageusia-and-age-in-community-presentation-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection-in-louisiana-usa-a-cross-sectional-prevalence-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/11\/the-importance-of-anosmia-ageusia-and-age-in-community-presentation-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection-in-louisiana-usa-a-cross-sectional-prevalence-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Anosmia, Ageusia and Age in Community Presentation of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Louisiana, USA; a Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence study in Louisiana found that reported loss of taste or smell was strongly associated with a positive (PCR or antibody) test (OR: 13.6). Among people who tested positive, 47.3% (147\/311) were asymptomatic. Modeling the probability of symptoms showed that the highest probability of reporting symptoms was 64.6% at age 29, which declined to 49.3% at age 60 and only 25.1% at age 80.<\/p>\n<p><i>Feehan et al. (Jan 5, 2021). The Importance of Anosmia, Ageusia and Age in Community Presentation of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Louisiana, USA; a Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2020.12.029\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2020.12.029<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence study in Louisiana found that reported loss of taste or smell was strongly associated with a positive (PCR or antibody) test (OR: 13.6). Among people who tested positive, 47.3% (147\/311) were asymptomatic. Modeling the probability of symptoms showed that the highest probability of reporting symptoms was 64.6% at age 29, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/11\/the-importance-of-anosmia-ageusia-and-age-in-community-presentation-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection-in-louisiana-usa-a-cross-sectional-prevalence-study\/\">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":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","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=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}