What We Might Learn from COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on communities and MEBO community is not an exception. Planned diagnostic and therapeutic studies were put on hold or transitioned from collecting new data to just analyzing the data. Any disadvantage, however, can be turned into an advantage. COVID-19 can help us to learn more about FMO3, distorted sense of smell, gut dysbiosis and other conditions contributing to malodor syndromes. Observations about COVID-19/vaccine reactogenicity in the MEBO community could help to attract researchers' interest and design better interventions against malodor conditions. 

The COVID-back-to-normal study (registered as NCT04832932) follows about 1000 participants from different online and offline communities and compares their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection, reactions to vaccines, COVID- and post-COVID symptoms. 

Preliminary results suggest there are interesting differences between the MEBO community and others. 

It is not unexpected. This figure from a recent article in Nature Medicine shows that FMO3 is one of the genes whose expression correlates with ACE2, the gene employed by  SARS-CoV-2 for cellular entry. A few other potential links between TMAU and COVID-19 are discussed in the latest Aurametrix blog. 

Your observations, hypotheses and comments are most welcome.

Short URLs for the survey : 

https://bit.ly/BTN-eng  (in English) 

https://bit.ly/BTN-esp (en Español)

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