Title:
Have you heard? Middle ear, mastoid harbor SARS-Cov-2 and may pose risk for medical staffs
By:
John Hopkins University
Published:
Medical Xpress, 29 July 2020
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-heard-middle-ear-mastoid-harbor.html
From the article:
A team of otolaryngologists and pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, can colonize the middle ear and mastoid region of the head behind the ear. Based on this, the team recommends that physicians, surgeons, nurses and other health care professionals—especially otolaryngologists—should practice recommended protective procedures against SARS-CoV-2 when dealing with examination, sample collecting, treatment and surgery of these two connected areas.
The physicians reported their findings in a research letter posted online on July 23, 2020, in JAMA Otolaryngology.