Letter to the Editor about the Beltrán-Corbellini et al. publication :"Acute-onset smell and taste disorders in the context of Covid-19: a pilot multicenter PCR-based case-control study" (Eur J Neurol. 2020. doi: 10.1111/ene.14273.).
Lechien, Jerome R;Hopkins, Claire;Saussez, Sven;
European journal of neurology2020
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Abstract
We read, with interest, the paper entitled "Acute-onset smell and taste disorders in the context of Covid-19: a pilot multicenter PCR-based case-control study". The authors observed that sudden loss of smell (LOS) was significantly more frequent in Covid-19 patients (39%) than those infected with influenza (12%). These data corroborated the results of Yan et al.