Europeans with COVID-19 are 3–6 times more likely to suffer from loss of smell and taste than other inhabitants of the Earth. This is stated in a study by physicians from the United States and Poland under the guidance of a professor at the University of Nevada in Reno, located in the electronic library medRxiv.

After the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters the human body, it develops a number of symptoms, the earliest and most common of which are loss of smell and taste impairment.

As the first observations of patients in Europe showed, almost all patients with COVID-19 experienced similar problems..

At the same time, problems with smell and taste among Asians and Africans were characteristic only for 6-15% of patients.

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They found that the virus uses olfactory receptors in the nasal mucosa as a kind of “gateway” through which it penetrates the human brain and spreads through the nervous system.

This, in turn, may explain why the COVID-19 epidemic spread much faster across Europe and the US than it did in China and other Asian countries, the publication said..

Reportedly, UK scientists start testing COVID-19 vaccine in humans. For the first stage of testing, 300 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 70 years were selected. If the test gives a positive result, the number of volunteers will increase by another 6 thousand.

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