{"id":5890,"date":"2020-04-13T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T21:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:50:23","slug":"association-of-chemosensory-dysfunction-and-covid-19-in-patients-presenting-with-influenza-like-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/13\/association-of-chemosensory-dysfunction-and-covid-19-in-patients-presenting-with-influenza-like-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of chemosensory dysfunction and Covid-19 in patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Han et al conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate loss of smell and taste as pathognomonic symptom of COVID-19 using an internet-based platform on adult subjects who underwent testing for Covid-19. Smell and taste loss were reported in 68% and 71% of Covid-19-positive subjects, respectively, compared to 16% and 17% of Covid-19-negative patients. Smell and taste impairment were independently and strongly associated with Covid-19-positivity, whereas sore throat was not. They concluded that loss of taste and smell could be an early indicator of COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Han et al. (April 2020). Association of chemosensory dysfunction and Covid-19 in patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms.<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32279441\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32279441<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Han et al conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate loss of smell and taste as pathognomonic symptom of COVID-19 using an internet-based platform on adult subjects who underwent testing for Covid-19. Smell and taste loss were reported in 68% and 71% of Covid-19-positive subjects, respectively, compared to 16% and 17% of Covid-19-negative patients. Smell and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/13\/association-of-chemosensory-dysfunction-and-covid-19-in-patients-presenting-with-influenza-like-symptoms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}