For many people, a case of COVID-19 lasts a week or two. For millions of adults, though, symptoms stick around for weeks, months, even years. Long COVID is associated with more than 200 symptoms that ...

Even after the virus disappears, some people continue to experience altered taste. New research suggests that subtle molecular changes in taste receptor cells, not visible damage, may explain why ...

After a COVID-19 infection, some people take months, or even longer, to recover their sense of taste. To understand this persistent phenomenon, a recent study directly examined the taste buds of ...

Taste dysfunction was gone 1 year after acute COVID-19, but smell loss remained for some people. Olfactory dysfunction was present in 30% of people with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and 21% of ...

In a small study, patients reporting long-term taste changes showed molecular disruptions and structural irregularities in their taste buds. COVID-19–related taste loss may persist long after ...

Scientists have identified molecular and structural changes in taste buds that may explain why a small subset of people experience long-term taste loss after COVID-19 infection. The study, published ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 68-year-old healthy male. I tested positive for COVID a month ago. I lost my taste and have still not gotten it back after five weeks. Otherwise, I feel great and have tested ...

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

The COVID-19 pandemic did more than change the world for some. It also changed the way they experience food forever. In the early days of the pandemic, it became clear that loss of taste and smell was ...