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

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.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." While there’s still no cure to loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19, those who are stuck ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Smell loss became the cardinal symptom of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and has ignited research on how smell and taste function. An international study led by the Global Consortium for Chemosensory ...

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 ...