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Hello, welcome to the naked scientists, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine,

with Katie Hayler and Chris Smith.

This week, what will the new normal look like?

We delve into the future of health care, education and transport.

Plus in the news, lot of smell is added to the list of coronavirus symptoms, but why is it taken

so long and how safe is it for schools to reopen?

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The UK government recently added a NOSME, the loss of the sense of smell, to the list of symptoms that people infected with coronavirus might develop and qualify them for testing.

And it turns out that losing your sense of smell is a much more powerful

predictor of coronavirus infection than having a fever, which was previously the leading criterion.

In fact, over 60% of people develop an osmia and in 16% of people it's the only

symptom that they show. This has emerged thanks to a free phone application

called the COVID symptom study app, launched by King's College

London researcher Tim Specter, and it seems his figures from over 3 million users have finally

provoked the government into action.

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