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#11-20 Purdue Predictions
H&R turns from the crystal ball to tea leaves to look into the upcoming season.
By Casey Bartley Nov 12, 2015, 7:00am EST
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We're back for day #2 of predictions. We've got ten more for you, and same as yesterday, these won't all happen, but think of these predictions as possible trends for the Purdue season.
In case you missed it, here's our #1-10 predictions.
11. Vince Edwards will lead the B10 in offensive rating.
Purdue has had a lot of offensive rating darlings. Hummel , for instance, was 14th in the nation in offensive rating his true freshman year. Offensive rating values efficiency, particularly players who can shoot and don't turn the ball over. Vince was our best shooter inside the three point arc last year, which is insane considering we had Haas and Hammons on our team. His shooting stroke looks improved, he looks faster which should mean even more easy looks, and he's been a beast in transition. He had the 15th best assist rate in conference games in the B10 as a true freshman and will have more weapons around him this year. He'll be the third or fourth option offensively for most games, and he just doesn't take bad shots. He's a mismatch at the 3 and 4, and he won't have to carry as much of an offensive burden as most of the elite talent in the conference. What's not to like?
12. Ryan Cline will make more 3's than Dakota Mathias this season.
Dakota struggled with his shot last year. He went 38 for 118 from deep, but was battling nagging injuries all year. I'm hesitant to file Cline as a gunner. He missed all six of his 3's in the exhibition, but the first four were all solid, open looks that all shooters should look to take. They'll start to fall. While Mathias's shot is smooth and looks good, he's the opposite end of a gunner. He's a passive offensive player looking to set up his teammates. With Stephens and Cline on the team, it's probably a good thing to have such a willing facilitator. Even with Mathias likely to improve his 3 pt%, Cline is not going to be timid shooting the looks that are there, and there will be a lot.
13. Caleb Swanigan will shoot 15 free throws in a game.
Biggie is a very unusual player. He's too wide to be that quick, he's too sturdy to have that kind of touch, and he's too big to have that kind of motor. He's going to get in a rhythm, against a mismatched opponent, and he's going to cause complete havoc and they're going to have no alternative than to foul him, a lot.
14. A. J. Hammons will be the only big man to fail to shoot 70% from the free throw line.
Swanigan has a nice touch, and, secretly, so does Haas. Haas shot 55% from the free throw line, but he looked confident in the exhibition. I expect him to improve after his freshman year with more time to focus on shot mechanics instead of simply learning how to play college basketball. Hammons has hovered around the 70% his whole career, crossing over it just once in his sophomore year. Frankly, I don't trust he put in the extra work in to improve it for his senior skill. Bummer.
15. Purdue will block more than 8 shots a game.
We're huge, have you heard? We blocked 5 a game last year, and Hammons has the chance to get into some historic blocking territory this season. He's been the best shot blocker in the B10 since he put on the uniform. Haas looked improved on defense, Swanigan is quick and really long, but it's our length with Edwards, Davis, and Stephens that should add for some extra blocks against smaller wings and guards. Also, all these counting stats will go up organically just by having the shot clock reduced, but I expect even our block percentage rate to go up.
16. Dakota Mathias will average over 5 assists per game and less than 1.2 turnovers per game.
Last year, Mathias averaged 1.4 assists per game, and Edwards lead the team with 2.7 assists per game. With more shooters, more big men, and a healthier body, Mathias should be able to leverage that into tripling his assists from last year. He's been leading us in assists in scrimmage while increasing his ball handling duty. He doesn't try to do too much which keeps his turnovers low.
17. Purdue will lose 3 of 4 at some point this season.
There's two stretches of our schedule that are just brutal. We end this calendar year and start the next one with games against Butler(Neutral), Vanderbilt, Iowa, Michigan(all at home), and Wisconsin on the road. Then, with conference play winding down, we alternate away and home against Maryland, Michigan St., Michigan, Northwestern, Indiana, and Maryland one more time. The B10 is just brutal. There's no way any team gets through the conference without some major wounds. If we don't lose 3 of 4 at some point? Then this will be a very special season.
18. P. J. Thompson will be the only Boiler with 30+ 3 pt. attempts to shoot under 30%
I just don't trust his shot. As much as Stephens frustrates fans, there's at least a predictability to when he shoots. That tells me he is always engaged with the shot, and that he's looking to shoot. Confidence is huge for shooters, and I just don't see it with P. J.. He'll pass an open look to take that same exact shot later. I don't love his stroke, and at his size, he's never as open as he looks. I'm not sure he'll have a play ran for him all year to get an open 3 - mitigated by the cyclical nature of the motion offense but still - and someone is going to have to not improve his shooting, and I think it's him.
19. Caleb Swanigan will lead the team in rebounding.
It's amazing to watch him on defense and see a kid who is thinking a little too much and trying to calculate everything out in real time, to have that same player switch into the most natural, aggressive beast on the planet as soon as the ball goes up. He's a rebounding monster. He's got long arms to go up and get the ball, and a wide, wide base that won't allow him to be pushed around. He's not going to get outworked on the glass, and he's going to end a lot of possessions for other teams while giving us even more on the offensive end. It's not fair that he gets to go up against the second biggest bodies against most teams.
20. Kendall Stephens will hit 9 3-points in one game.
A little out there, especially after missing so many 3's in the preseason, but man, he's been open a lot. It's his third year, and you can see he knows how and when to get open. He's too good of a shooter to miss that many wide open 3's. He's going to catch fire one of these games - remember, teams are going to try and zone the hell out of us - and he's going to go Hummel on someone.
(This has been my hardest prediction to make. I initially had it at 10, and then thought about dropping it to eight before settling at 9. I just think he's due.)
Check back tomorrow, we'll have our last 10 predictions for the season.
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Not owing a car is a choice, and it isn't a huge sacrifice as it sounds.
Although, every time I speak about my conviction of staying carless, Mahrukh and Che avoid eye contact, and try hard to talk of something else.
Then they walk away to the balcony of our apartment and gaze uneasily into the distant horizon, when I don't stop hectoring.
A lot of people think I'm not quite all there when I tell them that not only do I not have a car, I don't even have a cellphone. They emit a short nervous laugh and slowly edge away from me.
Living in Toronto without a car has been easy.
The transit is great, especially when one compares it to Mumbai. There is a bit of a problem in getting outside of Toronto to suburbs such as Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, and Oakville.
A trip to one of these places turns into an expedition. Again, it's not so much connectivity but time that is an issue.
I do get around, especially to Mississauga because of some truly great events organized by the South Asian community there.
Tuesday, braving the gloomy weather, and a complete absence of transit connectivity, I reached Flato Markham Theatre just in time for the readings to commence at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) Markham.
Throughout an unending and circuitous journey, thanks to misreading Google Maps, I was circumspect whether my herculean effort would be worthwhile.
IFOA-Markham was an exquisite mix of different cultures, different genres and altogether riveting readings from writers who were obviously creative, and surprisingly confident. Marjorie Celona, Ayesha Chatterjee, Chan Koonchung and Vincent Lam made the evening memorable.
Celona read a passage from her debut novel about Shannon who is abandoned outside the YMCA as an infant. There is an obviously raw and an edgy quality to her novel, and Celona's evocative reading brought alive the unpleasantness her protagonist's life.
Ayesha Chatterjee made me feel at home in a place I had never been to before when she greeted Subho Nabami to everyone in the auditorium.
Ayesha read from her collection The Clarity of Distance – poems she wrote when she moved from Germany to Toronto, and a few of them from and about Calcutta.
Her poetry is steeped in Indian traditions, and she narrated the story from the Shiva Purana of the Hindu trinity and the Ketaki flower.
Once Shiva had to intervene in a quarrel between Brahma and Vishnu.
Vishnu that whoever found the end or the beginning of the pillar would be declared superior.
Vishnu took the form of a boar and burrowed to seek the end of the pillar, and Brahma took the form of a swan and soared up to seek the pillar's beginning.
Vishnu returned after a while, admitting defeat.
Brahma couldn't find the beginning, but took the help of the ketaki flower (which Shiva used to put into his hair) and lied that he had reached the top of the pillar. Ketaki corroborated the lie.
An infuriated Shiva cursed Brahma that he wouldn't ever be worshiped in physical form like other gods in the Hindu pantheon, and he banished ketaki flower, which is not used in Shiva's worship.
Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years is story of a missing month, and a bunch of kids who kidnap an official to confess the truth.
Chan's reading was peppered with commentary that brought the novel alive and gave it immediacy and a meaning.
In his novel, Chan said, he had forced a bureaucrat to confess to the truth. Such a thing can only happen in a novel; in real life the bureaucrat would take the secret to his grave.
Finally, it was Vincent Lam's turn, and he read Percival Chen's story. Lam gave a brief glimpse of why The Headmaster's Wager has received glorious reviews everywhere.
As the evening moved on to the Q&A session, I left because I'd have to take a cab to the nearest subway station.
That's a bit of a problem because I don't have a cellphone, but an obliging volunteer used his cellphone and Ahmed Taha from Jordon of Rush taxi took me from Markham to Don Mills subway station.
It was late and raining and I was tired and drenched by the time I reached home. Tired but happy.
Thank you Sheniz Janmohamed for a great evening and for thinking of involving Generally About Books as community partner of the event.


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The 1991-1995 World War II Silver Dollar (Buy on eBay) was issued in 1993 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of America's involvement in World War II from 1941 to 1945. Surcharges from the sales of the three coins included in the program were used to construct the World War II monument and Washington DC and a D-Day monument planned for France, which was never constructed.
The obverse of the silver dollar features an American soldier on the shores of Normandy on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. The reverse features a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower with sleeve insignia from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. The obverse and reverse were both designed by Thomas D. Rodgers Sr.
The obverse inscriptions read "D-Day June 6, 1944", "In God We Trust", "Liberty", and the dual date "1991" and "1995". The reverse inscriptions include "United States of America", "E Pluribus Unum", the denomination "One Dollar" and the quote "I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!"
The 1993 World War II Silver Dollar had a maximum authorized mintage of 1,000,000 coins across both proof and uncirculated versions. Proof coins were struck at the West Point Mint and uncirculated coins were struck at the Denver Mint. The coins were sold individually, or as part of two-coin, three-coin, and six-coin sets, which included the other World War II commemorative coins.
Designer: Thomas D. Rodgers Sr.
Maximum Authorized Mintage: 2,000,000
1991-1995 (1993-D) Uncirculated World War II Silver Dollar
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\section*{Discussion}
All conflicts have multiple narrative scales, which can range from the detailed role of the individual (the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand instigating World War I) to geopolitics (a secret alliance network consequently implicating many nation-states \cite{laforeLongFuse1997}) and even further out to societal epochs across civilizational timescales \cite{turchinLinkingMicro2017,fergusonDoomPolitics2021}. Other narratives range from the role of ideologies, personalities, economic incentives, organizational resources and structure, etc.~(see references cited in \cite{weinsteinRebellion2007,raleighPoliticalHierarchies2014}). Each narrative implicitly assumes a relevant range of scales over which to draw a causal relationship between intervening events. And the quantitative evidence confirms that multiple scales matter: many conflict patterns beyond a small size are scale-free, which means that no single scale holds a privileged perspective \cite{johnsonSimpleMathematical2013, leeScalingTheory2020, spagatFundamentalPatterns2018,picoliUniversalBursty2015,clausetTrendsFluctuations2018}. This points to a fundamental challenge in the study of armed conflict, which is that conflict consists of many events occurring at multiple, overlapping spatial and temporal scales \cite{buhaugAccountingScale2005,balcellsViolenceCiviliansArmed2021}. As a result, methods for clustering conflict events must incorporate an adjustable scale in order to engage with the full complexity of conflict \cite{zammit-mangionPointProcess2012}.

We develop a systematic, data-driven, and scale-dependent procedure for extracting chains of causal events, or ``conflict avalanches,'' from observational data that could serve as the basic objects of conflict study (Figure~\ref{fig:method}). We construct conflict avalanches using a filter for statistical signatures of causality with a general measure of predictability, transfer entropy, which is a widely used measure for identifying hidden connections between system components \cite{schreiberMeasuringInformation2000,papanaReducingBias2011,staniekSymbolicTransfer2008}. Here, we use transfer entropy to build causal networks that connect local conflict events to one another. To do so, we start with the assumption that causal patterns can be detected from a reduced time series that only considers the appearance or absence of conflict, or binarization that ignores the magnitude of events. On one hand, this is a practical solution for handling general challenges in estimating statistics from a large state space. On the other hand, the power of the simplification is borne out in how we successfully identify related events, meaningful scales, and causal mechanisms hypothesized in the literature.

We discover a mesoscale at which conflict avalanches align with sociopolitical intuition (Figure~\ref{fig:mesoscale}), corresponding to separation scales on the order of a few days to months and tens of kilometers to hundreds. First, we recognize that the geographic scales recovered {\it a priori} range from 60\,km to 400\,km. Reassuringly, this is the typical distance between large neighboring towns and cities, which are important geographic pinning points for conflict (see Appendix~\ref{sec: africapolis}). The lower cutoff is much larger than any individual urban agglomeration and implies that conflict relations are not visible at microscopic precision. This could be because there is truly little statistical signal at such level of detail or from the limited resolution of the ACLED data set. Furthermore, the irregular shape of the mesoscale indicates that space and time scales are not independent of one another, or that looking at longer time scales is not equivalent to looking at longer spatial scales. Finally, we find that the avalanches in the mesoscale display a wide range of dynamical and spatial structures such as power law scaling. Such patterns indicate that conflict avalanches reflect long-range correlations between events. Thus, the mesoscale presents an interesting set of scales in which to focus on causal conflict patterns.

Perhaps surprisingly, conflict avalanches in the mesoscale group together events in a way that aligns with causal mechanisms proposed in the literature. We compare our conflict avalanches with heavily studied conflicts in Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. In each of the cases, our method recovers recognizable clusters of events that align with actor groups and distinct time periods. Yet, we also find surprising connections when we draw regions of causal interaction. With Nigeria, we connect with non-negligible probability events that are identified as Fulani militia with the Boko Haram core, suggesting that these conflicts are related to one another. In Sierra Leone, we connect RUF government forces with events in neighboring Liberia, in line with allegations of troops crossing the border. For these examples of causal validation, we focus on relatively short scales at the bottom corner of the mesoscale, but at larger geographic scales we also discover causal influence regions that highlight regional conflict patterns \cite{marshallConflictTrends2006} (see Appendix~\ref{fig:interaction}). This suggests that beyond confirming known cases of causal relationships, our procedure can provide a way of predicting new ones to test, refine, or inspire new hypotheses.

As a step in this direction, we develop conflict zones of causal interaction (Figure~\ref{fig:regions}). The zones are convex hulls of the probability that a nearby event is grouped into a conflict avalanche with the seed events. This is a practical application of our work to a problem that has attracted much attention in the literature \cite{raleighIntroducingACLED2010,kikutaNewGeography2022}. It could, when coupled with expertise in the particular conflict zone of interest, enable better policy decisions
and the impact of conflict on related phenomena such as poverty, segregation, and crime \cite{kikutaNewGeography2022}. Importantly, we introduce the flexibility of an adjustable spatiotemporal scale which can be crucial for detecting patterns that only emerge at certain levels of coarseness \cite{buhaugAccountingScale2005, oloughlinModelingData2014, scheffranClimateChange2012}. For example, the relationship between rainfall variability and conflicts is indiscernible when using a large temporal window such as an year as compared to monthly temporal window  \cite{coulibalyIdentifyingImpact2022}. Conflicts show correlation with climate-related disasters only when the period of analysis is less than three months \cite{schleussnerArmedconflictRisks2016}, and more generally the choice of scale is important for the connection between climate change and conflict \cite{abrahamsUnderstandingConnections2017}. Poverty and conflict is most meaningful at the subcountry level \cite{hegrePovertyCivil2009}.
Our scale-adjustable scope provides a natural way of handling such variability to identify areas of potential interest or highlight unseen connections that deserve deeper investigation.

The need to bridge microscopic and macroscopic descriptions generalizes to other spreading social processes including unrest, migration, epidemics, and their relationship to conflict. As such, our approach has potential for wider use. For example, estimates of the eventual geographic extent of new activity can inform response planning. Our minimal approach may be especially helpful in this regard because it is difficult to gather detailed and accurate information in conflict regions \cite{muellerMonitoringWar2021}. As another example, event avalanches can feed into automated methods of pattern discovery by providing structured input for training machine learning algorithms \cite{cedermanPredictingArmed2017,hochProjectingArmed2021,geModellingArmed2022,zammit-mangionPointProcess2012}. Our event avalanches can provide groupings across a hierarchy of scales, which can be further enhanced by other properties that we have not considered here like sociodemographic factors. Thus, we address a fundamental need for a tool in both policy and quantitative analysis for handling multiscale social processes, and we pave the way to explore, rather than be limited by, the variability across scales.

\section*{Acknowledgements}
We thank the CSH Theory Group including Rudi Hanel, Jan Korbel, Tuan Pham, and Stefan Thurner for helpful discussions. E.D.L.~acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Fund under grant number ESP 127-N. N.K.~acknowledges funding from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Funding Agreement number GZ 2021-0.664.668.

\section*{Data availability \& code}
We will publish a database containing the Voronoi cells and conflict avalanches on a web archive upon publication.

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Effectively completing a digital transformation can be challenging and risky. HR is in a unique position to help optimize this change, given its connection to employees and, often, ownership of corporate culture. Leveraging design thinking techniques can empower HR leaders to lift digital transformation projects from technology-focused initiatives to ones where the employee experience is at the centre of the change.
72% of HR professionals feel digital HR is important or very important yet only 9% feel ready for it.
Here are the downloadable templates mentioned during the webinar.
Use a project canvas to help organize all your project principles before you begin in earnest.
Research plans are great for laying out the details of how you're going to collect all the data you will need for your initiative.
Experience maps can do a number of things, like communicate research findings, address pain points, uncover opportunities, build empathy and challenge assumptions.
Consider using a visual SWOT as a way to generate ideas quicker, make it more fun (and creative) for the team.
Service Blueprints can be very helpful in showing all the necessary action required to bring one element of an experience to life. It uses a stage metaphor to organize all of its information.


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Dermot Canavan playing Lazar Wolf opens in West End's Fiddler on the Roof
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DSL 2001 grad Dermot Canavan plays Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof which opened last night at The Playhouse Theatre to rapturous applause!
Dermot graduated in 2001 and is an actor, known for Like Crazy (2011), The Death of Don Quixote (2018) and Out of Sight (2014).
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Best Black Friday deals on Nike: The best Nike shoes and activewear sales to look out for
Save on the swoosh.
Dani Maher
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Looking for Nike Black Friday deals? We've got you covered. Image: Instagram/ Nike.Source:BodyAndSoul
Looking for cheap Nike shoes and activewear? Look no further than our guide to the best Nike deals for Black Friday 2020.
Exercise isn't always the most exciting activity, but one thing that always makes it more bearable is having the right gear for the job. Seriously, there's nothing like a fresh pair of kicks or a brand new pair of tights to boost your motivation (even if it's just for that post-workout #glow selfie showing off your new threads).
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Best Nike activewear Black Friday deals
The Iconic: Get 30 per cent off a large range of Nike activewear, including the One Luxe Tights for $70, the Indy Ultra-Breathable Bra for $49, the Swoosh Run Tank for $31.50, the Yoga Infinalon Cropped Tank for $45.50 and the Essential Fleece Crew for $52.50.
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Best Nike sneaker Black Friday deals
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ASOS: For the Black Friday warmup sale, get up to 50 per cent off select Nike footwear. Includes the Nike Classic Cortez sneakers for $101.15, the Nike Ryz 365 sneakers for $116.25 and the Nike Nike Running React Miler sneakers for $184.
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When is Black Friday?
This year, Black Friday will be on Friday, November 27, 2020.
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Loss of smell associated with milder clinical course and less hospitalizations in COVID-19
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Summary: COVID-19 patients who reported smell loss as a symptom of their infection are ten times less likely to be hospitalized for coronavirus than those who do not report anosmia.
Following an earlier study that validated the loss of smell and taste as indicators of SARS-CoV-2 infection, researchers at UC San Diego Health report in newly published findings that olfactory impairment suggests the resulting COVID-19 disease is more likely to be mild to moderate, a potential early indicator that could help health care providers determine which patients may require hospitalization.
The findings were published online April 24, 2020 in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology.
"One of the immediate challenges for health care providers is to determine how to best treat persons infected by the novel coronavirus," said first author Carol Yan, MD, a rhinologist and head and neck surgeon at UC San Diego Health. "If they display no or mild symptoms, can they return home to self-quarantine or will they likely require hospitalization? These are crucial questions for hospitals trying to efficiently and effectively allocate finite medical resources."
Yan's latest study, conducted with colleagues Farhoud Faraji, MD, PhD; Benjamin T. Ostrander, MD, and Adam S. DeConde, MD, all physicians in the Department of Surgery at UC San Diego Health, and Divya P. Prajapati, a student in the UC San Diego School of Medicine, suggests loss of smell may be predictive of a milder clinical course of COVID-19.
"Normosmia or the normal sense of smell is an independent predictor of admission in COVID-19 cases," said Yan. "In previous research, we found that loss of olfactory function is a common early symptom, following fever and fatigue.
"What's notable in the new findings is that it appears that loss of smell may be a predictor that a SARS-CoV-2 infection will not be as severe, and less likely to require hospitalization. If an infected person loses that sense, it seems more likely they will experience milder symptoms, barring other underlying risk factors."
Those risk factors previously reported by other studies, include age (older persons are more at-risk for severe illness) and underlying medical conditions, such as chronic lung disease, serious heart conditions, diabetes and obesity.
The researchers' latest study was a retrospective analysis between March 3 and April 8 of this year and included 169 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 at UC San Diego Health. Olfactory and gustatory data were obtained for 128 of the 169 patients; 26 of whom required hospitalization.
Patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 treatment were significantly less likely to report anosmia or loss of smell (26.9 percent compared to 66.7 percent for COVID-19-infected persons treated as outpatients). Similar percentages were found for loss of taste, known as dysgeusia.
"Patients who reported loss of smell were 10 times less likely to be admitted for COVID-19 compared to those without loss of smell," said senior author DeConde, also a rhinologist and head and neck surgeon. "Moreover, anosmia was not associated with any other measures typically related to the decision to admit, suggesting that it's truly an independent factor and may serve as a marker for milder manifestations of Covid-19."
The researchers said that the findings possibly hint at some of the pathophysiological characteristics of the infection. "The site and dosage of the initial viral burden, along with the effectiveness of the host immune response, are all potentially important variables in determining the spread of the virus within a person and, ultimately, the clinical course of the infection," said DeConde.
Those risk factors previously reported by other studies, include age (older persons are more at-risk for severe illness) and underlying medical conditions, such as chronic lung disease, serious heart conditions, diabetes and obesity. Image is in the public domain.
In other words, if the SARS-CoV-2 virus initially concentrates in the nose and upper airway, where it impacts olfactory function, that may result in an infection that is less severe and sudden in onset, decreasing the risk of overwhelming the host immune response, respiratory failure and hospitalization.
"This is a hypothesis, but it's also similar to the concept underlying live vaccinations," DeConde said. "At low dosage and at a distant site of inoculation, the host can generate an immune response without severe infection."
Loss of smell, he said, might also indicate a robust immune response which has been localized to the nasal passages, limiting effects elsewhere in the body.
The researchers noted their study was limited in scope and by its nature: relying upon self-reporting of anosmia and a greater chance of recall bias among patients once they had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and that patients with more severe respiratory disease requiring hospitalization may not be as likely to recognize or recall the loss of smell.
Additional, more expansive studies are needed for validation, they said, but that the findings have important immediate practical applications for health care systems and patients.
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About this coronavirus research article
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Original Research: Closed access
"Self‐reported olfactory loss associates with outpatient clinical course in Covid‐19". by Carol H. Yan MD, Farhoud Faraji MD, PhD, Divya P. Prajapati BS, Benjamin T. Ostrander MD, Adam S. DeConde MD.
International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology doi:10.1002/alr.22592
Self‐reported olfactory loss associates with outpatient clinical course in Covid‐19
Rapid spread of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus has left many health systems around the world overwhelmed, forcing triaging of scarce medical resources. Identifying indicators of hospital admission for Covid‐19 patients early in the disease course could aid the efficient allocation of medical interventions. Self‐reported olfactory impairment has recently been recognized as a hallmark of Covid‐19 and may be an important predictor of clinical outcome.
A retrospective review of all patients presenting to a San Diego Hospital system with laboratory‐confirmed positive Covid‐19 infection was conducted with evaluation of olfactory and gustatory function and clinical disease course. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression were performed to identify risk factors for hospital admission and anosmia.
A total of 169 patients tested positive for Covid‐19 disease between March 3 and April 8, 2020. Olfactory and gustatory data were obtained for 128/169 (75.7%) subjects of which 26/128 (20.1%) required hospitalization. Admission for Covid‐19 was associated with intact sense of smell and taste, increased age, diabetes, as well as subjective and objective parameters associated with respiratory failure. On adjusted analysis, anosmia was strongly and independently associated with outpatient care (aOR 0.09 95% CI: 0.01‐0.74) while positive findings of pulmonary infiltrates and/or pleural effusion on chest radiograph (aOR 8.01 95% CI: 1.12‐57.49) was strongly and independently associated with admission.
Normosmia is an independent predictor of admission in Covid‐19 cases. Smell loss in Covid‐19 may associate with a milder clinical course.
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