There's a new symptom of coronavirus, doctors say: Sudden loss of smell or taste.
A loss of a sense of smell or taste may be a symptom of COVID-19, medical groups representing ear, nose and throat specialists have warned.
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Anosmia is the loss of smell while dysgeusia is an altered sense of taste.
In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30% of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases," they wrote.
But Ruiz had another set of symptoms: "I lost taste, food wasn’t appetizing, I couldn’t smell anything.".
Denneny said patients could recover their sense of smell fully, permanently lose it or land anywhere in between. »