Our senses of taste and smell provide a window on the chemical world around us. We taste food in our mouth with the chemical receptors that dot our tongue, and we smell molecules suspended in the air ...

No sense of smell. No sense of taste. No idea what is going on. Sound familiar? If you're a COVID-19 long hauler, it likely does. "For the bulk of people who get COVID-19, most will recover their ...

Six weeks after symptoms improved, which coincided with the patient’s recovery of sense of taste. Another patient was a 63-year-old man with no preexisting conditions who had donated samples of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While there’s still no cure to loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19, those who are stuck experiencing the strange symptoms have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the brain and the body but sometimes other things. According to a new study, two-thirds of people admitted to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to vaccines, the rates of severe COVID-19 in the US have gone down dramatically. However, it's still possible to contract ...

Taste dysfunction may linger after acute COVID-19 infection and may not necessarily be a consequence of olfactory dysfunction, a cross-sectional study in Italy showed. In a group of people who ...

PEOPLE's Voices from the Coronavirus Crisis speaks to those who have experienced unique circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic Nabil Ayers is a Brooklyn-based writer and the U.S. Head of ...

For millions of people, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Roughly one in four people who were sick with COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic have yet to regain their sense of smell or ...

Medical personnel demonstrate the collection of a nasal swab in Munich on March 23, 2020. Correspondent It was four days into her suspected COVID-19 infection that Olivia Haynes realized she couldn’t ...