
TWiV 863: Does this challenge study pass the smell test?
This Week in Virology
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Pennsylvania Smell Test
i had a break through infection. We both had some difficulty smelling things, but different things for each of us. My wife lost her sense of smell for things likea black pepper, a cardamum. So they say, anosmea is therefore a common feature of sars. Kovi to challenge that this inoculum dose has low risk of causing severe symptoms in healthy young adults. But leads a large amount of virus even in the absence of respiratory or sytemic disease. It has no risk in 36 participants, right? That's not low. I think i low would be more people tested. Ind this number, we don't see it, but who knows? Ri
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