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Re:Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of C... by rurban on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:55PM (#24665151)
Known since April.
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Re:Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of C... by vmception on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:37PM (#24665620)
The studies weren't out then.

Let's not pretend that even the data driven people decry "fearmongering" to anything that wasn't a peer reviewed study published in a journal, even though there were no peer reviewed studies published in journals yet.

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Re:Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of C... by Duller-Finite on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:26AM (#24669527)
I have no idea why you think that there were no studies in April. A quick search shows that's wrong. There were initial reports in March, followed by many peer-reviewed studies that started coming out in April, which were then followed by studies with more objective measures (rather than retrospective self-reports) and larger sample sizes.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/15/889/5811989

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00405-020-05965-1

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alr.22592

[4] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765183

[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0916-2

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