{"id":10638,"date":"2025-10-22T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:01:07","slug":"covid-related-smell-loss-may-last-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/covid-related-smell-loss-may-last-years\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-related smell loss may last years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/long-covid-smell-loss-persistent-years\">Science News<\/a> Maybe you can\u2019t detect the scent of grass anymore. Or maybe coffee\u2019s aroma now triggers disgust. After getting COVID-19, your sense of smell may seem persistently off. You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even years after an infection, most people who say they have smell loss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2839325\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"do indeed have a dulled sense of smell when formally tested, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do indeed have a dulled sense of smell when formally tested<\/a>, scientists report September 25 in\u00a0<em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>. And people who thought they were smelling just fine often had problems, too, says Leora Horwitz, a general internist at NYU Langone Health. \u201cSometimes people don\u2019t even recognize it when they have smell loss,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/long-covid-smell-loss-persistent-years\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science News Maybe you can\u2019t detect the scent of grass anymore. Or maybe coffee\u2019s aroma now triggers disgust. After getting COVID-19, your sense of smell may seem persistently off. You\u2019re not alone. Even years after an infection, most people who say they have smell loss\u00a0do indeed have a dulled sense of smell when formally tested, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}