Loss of smell and taste: a new marker of COVID-19? Tracking reduced sense of smell during the coronavirus pandemic using search trends.
Objectives: It has been demonstrated that reduction in smell and/or taste is the most predictive symptom in SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 infection. We used Google Trends to analyze regional searches relating to loss of smell and taste across Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, and the United States of America and...
| Publicado en: | Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy Vol. 18; no. 11; pp. 1165 - 1171 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2020
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