What Research shows
u-Smell-it test is a Pre-Corona test. Research shows that our nose is a powerful secret weapon to help identify COVID-19 as up to 85% of people infected with the coronavirus experience loss of smell.1
Identifying loss of smell, aka anosmia, is a 5-10 times more specific indicator than a temperature test.2 3
This is due to the nature of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which binds ACE2 Receptors that are enriched -500 fold in top of the nose.4
Thus a unique feature of COVID-19 is a loss of smell even without a stuffy or runny nose that is typical of the flu.5