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.
Matt LechnerJacklyn LiuNicholas CounsellNgan Hong TaJohn RockeRajesh AnmolsinghNicholas Eynon-LewisSantdeep PaunClaire HopkinsSadie KhwajaB Nirmal KumarSamuel JayarajValerie J LundCarl Martin PhilpottPublished in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2020)
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.