Elisabeth Ninchritz-Becerra

TL;DR: Investigation of the frequency and severity of STD in COVID-19 patients and the association with demographic characteristics, hospital admission, symptoms, comorbidities, and blood biomarkers found an older age, being hospitalized and an increased level of C-reactive protein were factors associated with a better sense of smell and/or taste.

TL;DR: The olfactory loss assessed with the alcohol threshold test has shown high sensitivity and odds ratio in both patients with confirmed COVID-19 illness and participants with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection.

TL;DR: The sudden onset smell and/or taste dysfunction should be considered highly suspicious for COVID-19 infection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the prevalence of COVID-19 infection in Spain through RT-PCR and found a significant association between sudden onset smell and/or taste dysfunction.

TL;DR: The sudden onset smell and/or taste dysfunction should be considered highly suspicious for COVID-19 infection.