Loss of Smell COVID-19 Symptom Explained

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So many of our friends and acquaintances who have contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus have claimed that they have lost their sense of smell, while having the disease. Harvard researchers say that they know why that’s so.

According to a recent article in the New York Post  the researchers discovered that the SARS CoV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19, can attack the cells that support the olfactory sensory neurons. Those are the ones detect and transmit the sense of smell to our brain.

Sandeep Robert Datta, a neurobiology professor at Harvard Medical School, findings indicated:

The novel coronavirus changes the sense of smell in patients not by directly infecting neurons but by affecting the function of supporting cells. I think it’s good news, because once the infection clears, olfactory neurons don’t appear to need to be replaced or rebuilt from scratch. We need more data and a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms to confirm this conclusion.

So, for those of you who are overcoming the coronavirus, the good news is? Your sense of smell most likely will return to you, sooner than later.

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