About a week after I came home from Costa Rica via a packed Atlanta airport where we had to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the security lines and on the train between terminals for 4 hours with 5 young children touching everything, Toni lost her sense of taste and smell for the first time in her life. I had developed a scratchy throat and cough a few days after returning.
Her doc said other viruses can cause loss of taste and smell, true dat, her symptoms weren't very severe and testing isn't available for her level of symptoms.
But today we got word that Stanford is offering free blood testing, first come first serve, one per household. She signed up right away. 10 minutes later they weren't accepting anyone else.
It's funny, we both hope she tests positive so we have immunity, but it's very unlikely. Anyway, it's a simple finger prick and 15 minutes later you know. Apparently it has a sensitivity of 86% and specificity of 90%, whatever that means.
Fantastic image: BioWorld.