December 2020: Avraham: COVID-19 does not cause hearing loss
A new study by Prof. Karen Avraham, Edmond J. Safra member, found no evidence that COVID-19 causes damage to the hearing system.
Prof. Karen Avraham, Edmond J. Safra member (Medicine), together with colleagues from the Galilee Medical Center and the Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, checked whether COVID-19 can cause permanent neural or sensory damage to the hearing system, They found no evidence for such damage.
The study was published the scientific journal Otology & Neurotology, and Prof. Avraham was interviewed to online newspaper Onenewspage. The study was also featured in several online media news in multiple languages: Hebrew, Arabic, German, Spanish, Greek and Indonesian.