Treating post-infectious smell loss in COVID-19 patients
Thought LeadersProfessor Carl PhilpottAcademic SurgeonUniversity of East Anglia
News-Medical catches up with Professor Carl Philpott about the latest findings regarding COVID-19 and smell loss (anosmia), and how sufferers of smell loss post-infection can be treated.
We last interviewed you back in the early stages of the COVID pandemic about smell loss and COVID-19, when it was becoming increasingly recognized as an official symptom. How has your research and knowledge developed since then?
Firstly, after official recognition by the WHO and subsequently, the UK government, it was about showing just how common smell dysfunction was. Pooled evidence showed an incidence of about 60% of those being infected with COVID-19.
By Matt Discombe2021-01-16T06:00:00+00:00
Covid-19 infections likely caught in hospital up by half in a week
Share of total at 15 per cent down from a high of nearly 25 per cent in December
Hospital-acquired covid rates treble in some acute trusts
Covid-19 infections likely to have been caught in hospital have increased by almost half in a week with several trusts seeing significant rises,
HSJ can reveal.
Our analysis of NHS England data shows that 3,813 covid cases in hospital in the week to 10 January were likely to have been hospital acquired.
Probable hospital-acquired covid cases in the latest week rose by 46 per cent on the week before, when 2,610 cases were detected, and by 52 per cent on the total on 20 December.
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By Gavin Bevis
BBC News Online examines how East Midlands hospitals are coping with the current surge in Covid-19 cases.
The pandemic s resurgence has compounded the usual extra pressure on health services during the colder months.
Now - despite two lockdowns in three months - those grim predictions are becoming reality, as hospital staff around the UK struggle to deal with rising Covid admissions.
So how bad are things in the region - and are they going to get worse?
How many Covid-19 patients are there at East Midlands hospitals?
image captionThe Royal Derby Hospital s chief executive said he expected admissions to continue to rise
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