23/04/2020
New research uncovers the importance of loss of smell (anosmia) or the loss of taste (ageusia) in COVID-19 infections. Previously importance was given to symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, and fever. This study estimated the chances that someone with the loss of smell or loss of taste has COVID-19 is 62%. Fever and dry cough are still relevant as symptoms, but I suspect many cases of COVID-19 have been missed because other symptoms such as these were overlooked. What do you think?
Understanding the temporal dynamics of COVID-19 patient phenotypes is necessary to derive fine-grained resolution of the pathophysiology. Here we use state-of-the-art deep neural networks over an institution-wide machine intelligence platform for the augmented curation of 8.2 million clinical notes....