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Fact or Fiction: Does TikTok remedy actually bring back taste, smell after COVID?
VIDEO: Fact or Fiction: Does TikTok remedy actually bring back taste, smell after COVID? By Michal Higdon | January 7, 2021 at 5:00 PM EST - Updated January 8 at 3:57 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A remedy challenge is going viral on social media and it claims a charred orange, mixed with brown sugar, can help people who have contracted COVID-19 get their taste and smell back.
Millions of people have viewed it, hundreds of people have tried it, but does the old Jamaican remedy it actually work?
“I mean it sounds delicious,” Roper St. Francis Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Care and Population Health Dr. Robert Oliverio says. “But, scientifically, there’s really no basis for that.”
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The model, published in JAMA Network Open on Thursday, shows that an estimated 59% of all coronavirus cases come from those who are asymptomatic, including 35% who are presymptomatic meaning they initially don’t show symptoms but eventually develop them and 24% who never develop any signs of symptoms of COVID-19.