Dominant 2021 COVID strain leaves millions without sense of taste and smell – but treatments are available

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The dominant strain of COVID that plagued the world following the rollout of the covid-19 vaccines left millions of Americans without their sense of smell and taste. According to a recent study published in the Laryngoscope, an estimated 800,000 Americans permanently lost their sense of smell after infection and approximately 540,000 permanently lost their sense of taste. After recovering from the infection in 2021, another 5.2 million partially recovered their sense of taste and approximately 4.2 million partially recovered their sense of smell. Persistent mask usage, the ineffective covid-19 vaccines, and the censorship of early treatments weakened human immune responses and placed selective pressure on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, altering its original gain-of-function properties and changing how the infection spreads and attacks human immune systems.

 

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