How common are taste, smell dysfunction in COVID-19 patients

What The Study Did:

This survey study of patients with COVID-19 investigates how common the ability to taste and smell was reduced at the onset of the disease.

Authors:

Fabio Ferreli, M.D., of the Humanitas Clinical and Research Center in Milan, Italy, is the corresponding author.

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