Ray Partha S
Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist, NHS England and Clinical Lecturer Liverpool University and Post Graduate Medical School Liverpool.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2020 Dec;68(12):66-69.
COVID-19 is certainly the greatest global health problem now and for the foreseeable future. Clinicians and scientists from all over the world have been producing evidence to understand the epidemiology, clinical profile and prognostic factors of COVID-19. In the last six months a large list of COVID-19 symptoms including loss of taste and smell have emerged which can be used for screening and risk stratification. Robust workup of this evidence will help to reach strong conclusions to advance clinical medicine, epidemiology, public health, immunology and evidence-based treatment options in the spectrum of disease that we now know as COVID-19.
新冠病毒肺炎无疑是当下以及可预见的未来最大的全球健康问题。世界各地的临床医生和科学家一直在提供证据，以了解新冠病毒肺炎的流行病学、临床特征和预后因素。在过去的六个月里，出现了一长串包括味觉和嗅觉丧失在内的新冠病毒肺炎症状，这些症状可用于筛查和风险分层。对这些证据进行有力的检查将有助于得出强有力的结论，从而推动临床医学、流行病学、公共卫生、免疫学以及针对我们现在所知的新冠病毒肺炎这一疾病谱系的循证治疗方案的发展。
