07 June 2023

Loss of smell from COVID-19 much less likely with new variants, study shows

upi.com

One of the signature symptoms of COVID-19 infection in the early months of the pandemic was a loss of the sense of smell.Now, new research finds that is no longer the case, thanks to the new variants that have been circulating more recently.AdvertisementThe risk of losing sense of taste or smell is now only about 6% to 7% of what it was during the pandemic's early stages, according to researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine in Richmond, Va."At the beginning of [...]