Mansur Shaheen | Dec 28, 2020
The University of Florida is one of three schools to receive funding from the National Institute of Health to research smell-based COVID-19 tests. Researchers at the school will be tasked with testing two smell-based tests to determine which one is more accurate.
Florida received a $912,000 grant from the institute. Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University are also part of the study.
The research may be used to develop at-home COVID-19 tests, according to Dr. Steven Munger, director of the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste.
“Hopefully, using smell testing as a way of an early indicator of the presence of COVID-19 will help health providers and communities to identify individuals that should be most rapidly targeted to additional testing or to isolation,” Munger said.
The tests will emit common smells at different concentrations and ask the testee to identify them. Losing sense of smell or taste is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 and can show up in patients who do not exhibit any other common symptoms of the virus.
Study participants will be recruited starting in January.
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