The Medical Minute: Smell and Taste Changes Provide Early Indication of COVID-19 Community Spread

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Self-reports of smell and taste changes provide earlier markers of the spread of infection of SARS-CoV-2 than current governmental indicators, according to an international team of researchers. The researchers also observed a decline in self-reports of smell and taste changes as early as five days after lockdown enforcement, with faster declines reported in countries that adopted […]

 

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