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Ann Bauer

One College’s Pop-Up COVID Test: Stop and ‘Smell the Roses’ (Or the Coffee)

By Ann Bauer August 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Forget those thermometers. Researchers, finding a surer link between the loss of the sense of smell and a coronavirus infection, suggest the symptom may be an easy and less expensive method for screening.

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