tastes.These findings lend weight to the theory that COVID-19 infects the brain and central nervous system.The research team hope that their work could help develop smell and taste tests for fast COVID-19 screening - in primary care and emergency departments.Lead researcher Prof Carl Philpott, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "The loss of smell and taste is a prominent symptom of COVID-19, however, it is also a common symptom of having a bad cold.
We wanted to find out exactly what differentiates COVID-19 smell loss with the kind of smell loss you might have with a cold and blocked-up nose."The research team carried out smell and taste tests on 10 COVID-19 patients, 10 people with bad colds and a control group of 10 healthy people -.