Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ilana Doweck; Yoav Yanir; Ronza Najjar-Debbiny; Rana Shibli; Walid Saliba

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2021.4105

Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Apr 1;148(4):373-375. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2021.4105.

Authors

Ilana Doweck^{1

2}, Yoav Yanir^{1

2}, Ronza Najjar-Debbiny³, Rana Shibli⁴, Walid Saliba^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
² Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
³ Infection Control and Prevention Unit, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
⁴ Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.

Abstract

This cohort study compares the incidence of sudden sensorineural hearing loss during the COVID-19 pandemic with that during 2018 and 2019 and assesses the association of lockdowns during the pandemic with sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural* / epidemiology
Hearing Loss, Sudden* / epidemiology
Hearing Loss, Sudden* / etiology
Humans
Pandemics