In good news for recovering COVID patients, a new study finds that, a year on, nearly all patients who lost their sense of smell after a bout of COVID-19 regained it.
But as months went by, and many patients failed to recover their sense of smell, some began to worry that the damage could be permanent.In their research, the French team tracked the sense of smell of 97 patients averaging about 39 years of age. All had lost their sense of smell after contracting COVID-19.
By the four-month mark, objective testing of 51 of the patients showed that about 84% had already regained a sense of smell, while six of the remaining eight patients had done so by the eight-month mark. Only two out of the 51 patients who'd been analyzed using the specialized tests had some impaired sense of smell one year after their initial diagnosis, the findings showed.
That sentiment was echoed by Dr. Eric Cioe-Peña, director of global health at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He said the findings, although very welcome, should remind everyone — especially the young — that a SARS-CoV-2 infection can do a lot of long-term harm.
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