For most patients, the loss faded within weeks or months. But for a smaller group, taste never fully returned. Even years after infection, certain flavors remain muted or completely absent.

COVID is known to cause changes in taste, and they can linger even after other symptoms have resolved.

A new study provides the first direct biological evidence explaining why some people continue to experience taste loss long after recovering from COVID-19.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people who strangely lost their ability to taste or smell after a COVID-19 infection have had their senses fully ...

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 ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Even after the virus disappears, some people continue to experience altered taste. New research ...

A COVID-19 infection left millions of patients without their full sense of taste or smell returning, study says. Elly Johnson via Unsplash Millions of people who strangely lost their ability to taste ...

Many workers in the food industry experiencing parosmia — or a long-term distorted sense of smell — find their lives and livelihoods disrupted. And they have trouble accessing help. Anaïs Saint-André ...

Losing one’s sense of smell and taste is perhaps one of the more bizarre symptoms of COVID-19. If it’s happened to you, you undoubtedly remember it: Waking up one morning, and suddenly discovering ...

Learn how researchers may have finally uncovered why some people experience long-lasting taste loss after COVID-19.

(NEW YORK) — Doctors and researchers still have much to learn about the exact symptoms caused by COVID-19, but a group of ear, nose and throat doctors now suspect two such symptoms may be an altered ...