At least 27 million COVID patients may have long-term smell and taste problems bmj_latest
About 5% of adults may develop long-lasting changes to their sense of smell or taste after COVID-19 infection, suggests research published byWith more than 550 million confirmed COVID-19 cases to date, this means that at least 15 million and 12 million adult patients may experience long-term smell and taste deficiencies, respectively.
To address this knowledge gap, an international research team trawled databases for studies of adults with COVID-19 related changes to smell or taste and studies that described factors associated with these changes and time to recovery. They found that smell loss may persist in 5.6% of patients, while 4.4% may not recover their sense of taste. At 30 days after initial infection, only 74% of patients reported smell recovery and 79% of patients reported taste recovery.
One patient the researchers spoke to said she has yet to recover her sense of smell, even though it has been over 27 months since initial infection.
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