1. 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
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Carl Philpott, Samuel Jayaraj, Claire Hopkins, Sandtdeep Paun, Rajesh Anmolsingh, Matthias Lechner, Valerie J Lund, Sadie Khwaja, B Nirma L Kumar, John Rocke, Jacklyn Liu, Ngan Hong Ta, Nicholas Counsell, and Nicholas Eynon-Lewis
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Health Personnel ,Olfaction ,03 medical and health sciences ,Olfaction Disorders ,Taste Disorders ,0302 clinical medicine ,Correspondence: Our Experience ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Health care ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Humans ,030223 otorhinolaryngology ,Psychiatry ,Pandemics ,Mass screening ,media_common ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Public health ,Taste (sociology) ,COVID-19 ,Middle Aged ,United Kingdom ,Taste disorder ,Otorhinolaryngology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,business - 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 20th . However, whether individual hospitals were including smell and taste disturbances in their initial work-up for Covid-19 diagnosis is unknown.
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- 2020