A Covid Early Warning Sign
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Losing the ability to smell is one of the strangest clues that someone may have COVID-19. Experts around the world are still trying to understand why this symptom pops up, and what it means for patients. Some are calling on people who have lost their sense of smell to get tested and isolate themselves, even if they have no other symptoms. Jason Gale reports that the symptom could be an early warning sign--and screening for it could help contain the virus.6
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| 0:00.0 | The forces shaping markets and the economy are often hiding behind a blur of numbers. |
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| 0:32.7 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. |
| 0:39.3 | It's day 35 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:44.3 | Our main story today, an under-examined symptom of COVID-19 could give scientists clues about how to contain the virus. But first, here's what happened today. |
| 0:58.0 | The new coronavirus has now |
| 1:09.0 | infected 2 million people around the world. |
| 1:12.6 | Hitting that number is a grim milestone. |
| 1:15.6 | It exposes how hard the world has struggled to contain the deadly pathogen. |
| 1:21.6 | It took about four months for the virus to infect 1 million people, |
| 1:26.6 | and only 12 days for that number to double. |
| 1:30.3 | The total case count today is likely higher than 2 million, with some countries, including |
| 1:37.3 | the U.S., testing only a fraction of their populations. |
| 1:41.3 | The European Commission is devising a plan to get Europe's economy back up and running. |
| 1:47.4 | The Commission says companies and workers won't get back to business as usual until there's a |
| 1:53.1 | vaccine or a cure for COVID-19. In the meantime, the European Union's executive arm has created a roadmap for partially |
| 2:02.8 | lifting restrictions in an effort to mitigate the economic devastation. |
| 2:08.2 | The plan, unveiled by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday, would coordinate |
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