French study reports return of smell to Covid patients within 1 year
27 Jun 2021, 17:42 GMT+10
PARIS, France: A French medical study has determined that one year after contracting Covid, nearly all patients in the study had regained their sense of smell.
"Persistent COVID-19-related anosmia [loss of smell] has an excellent prognosis, with nearly complete recovery at one year," according to Dr. Marion Renaud, an otorhinolaryngologist at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg, as quoted by United Press International.
In the early months of the pandemic, doctors reported treating patients who had lost their sense of smell. Scientists speculated that the loss of smell was one identifying symptom of the illness.