Doctor groups are recommending testing and isolation for people who lose their ability to smell and taste, even if they have no other symptoms. A mother who was infected with the coronavirus couldn’t smell her baby’s full diaper. Cooks who can usually name every spice in a restaurant dish can’t smell curry or garlic, and food tastes bland. Others say they can’t pick up the sweet scent of shampoo or the foul odor of kitty litter. Anosmia, the loss of sense of smell, and ageusia, an accompanying diminished sense of taste, have emerged as peculiar telltale signs of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and possible markers of infection. On Friday, British ear, nose and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, called on adults who lose their senses of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other symptoms, to slow the disease’s spread. The published data is limited, but doctors are concerned enough to raise warnings. “We really want to raise awareness that this is a sign of infection and that anyone who develops loss of sense of smell should self-isolate,” Prof. Claire Hopkins, president of the British Rhinological Society, wrote in an email. “It could contribute to slowing transmission and save lives.” She and Nirmal Kumar, president of ENT UK, a group representing ear, nose and throat doctors in Britain, issued a joint statement urging health care workers to use personal protective equipment when treating any patients who have lost their senses of smell, and advised against performing nonessential sinus endoscopy procedures on anyone, because the virus replicates in the nose and the throat and an exam can prompt coughs or sneezes that expose the doctor to a high level of virus. Two ear, nose and throat specialists in Britain who have been infected with the coronavirus are in critical condition, Dr. Hopkins said. Earlier reports from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus first emerged, had warned that ear, nose and throat specialists as well as eye doctors were infected and dying in large numbers, Dr. Hopkins said. The British physicians cited reports from other countries indicating that significant numbers of coronavirus patients experienced anosmia, saying that in South Korea, where testing has been widespread, 30 percent of 2,000 patients who tested positive experienced anosmia as their major presenting symptom (these were mild cases). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-symptoms-smell-taste.html
Nah, you've been bangin' on him a little much lately. Thought I would spread some of your love around. No matter the recipient it was still funny.
My wife should be doing that but for some baffling reason, she loves me. I'll never understand how women can love men.
Yep, handbags. However, what with the virus and all I'm afraid the handbag will have to wait. We're getting a hefty four figure income tax refund to go with our four Covid19 stimulus checks which I'm afraid we're going to have to spend on relatives that aren't doing so well. One character trait of my wife that I admire is that she is a family first person. I'm especially good to her nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews which she loves. She'd rather I give some money to her family than buy something for her. I can handle the expensive handbag once every few years with a wife with character like that.
