{"id":105042,"date":"2020-04-09T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/amid-confusion-over-virus-symptoms-israeli-scientist-creates-a-sniff-test-tool"},"modified":"2020-04-09T19:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:42:18","slug":"amid-confusion-over-virus-symptoms-israeli-scientist-creates-a-sniff-test-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/amid-confusion-over-virus-symptoms-israeli-scientist-creates-a-sniff-test-tool","title":{"rendered":"Amid confusion over virus symptoms, Israeli scientist creates a sniff test tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amid-confusion-over-virus-symptoms-israeli-scientist-creates-a-sniff-test-tool.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli scientist is urging people to ask a simple question daily to save lives from coronavirus: can I smell? There is widespread confusion about how to identify coronavirus symptoms, as several of them are similar to symptoms of flu and the common cold. But Noam Sobel says that there is one highly unusual pattern, a sudden inability to smell, and he has built a website to help people keep tabs on their odor-assessing abilities. People are signing up from all over the world, at an average rate of 200 per hour.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Smell garlic and toothpaste and save lives from coronavirus: It\u2019s not a folk cure, but a Weizmann Institute initiative, and 200 people an hour are joining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli scientist is urging people to ask a simple question daily to save lives from coronavirus: can I smell? There is widespread confusion about how to identify coronavirus symptoms, as several of them are similar to symptoms of flu and the common cold. But Noam Sobel says that there is one highly unusual pattern, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}