Health
This is how long COVID can take your sense of smell for – Ladders
A new paper looks at the damage COVID-19 can do to our sense of smell and how long this side effect can last in patients.
Among the long list of instructive COVID-19 symptoms, is the loss of taste and smell.
Although fever, labored breathing, and a dry cough are more commonly reported indicators of seasonal illness, neuropathies actually occur in over 60% of general upper respiratory infections and about 38% of the time in coronavirus infections specifically. The latter occurs even more regularly among younger populations.
The reasons behind this correlation haven’t been thoroughly explored until now. It has been…
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