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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by StavrosK on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:11PM (#23147732)
Keep in mind that many coronaviruses can cause loss of smell/taste.
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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by rindalir on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:45PM (#23149691)
But which other coronaviruses are widely circulating right now is the question. As in, if you were to lose your smell because of a coronavirus, how likely is it that it was not SARS-CoV-2?
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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by bkanber on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:10AM (#23150763)
I don't know the absolute figures in terms of cases per year, but the four common coronaviruses are... common. From [1], we see that 1 in 200 flu-like infections was the coronavirus HKU1. This [2] paper corroborates and gives figures for the other three common viruses.

We can therefore assume that about 1 in 25 bad-cold or flu-like illnesses are caused by a coronavirus.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466428/

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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by ben-schaaf on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:29PM (#23149214)
Pretty much any URTI can cause loss of taste. The loss of smell causes loss of taste.
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