{"id":2003,"date":"2022-12-27T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:06:31","slug":"scientists-have-a-theory-on-covid-loss-of-smell-damage-to-nasal-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/27\/scientists-have-a-theory-on-covid-loss-of-smell-damage-to-nasal-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have a theory on covid loss of smell: Damage to nasal cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/12\/22\/covid-loss-of-smell-cause\/?utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_tyh\">Washington Post<\/a>)  Persistent loss of smell has left some covid-19 survivors yearning for the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Christie_Whelan\/status\/1536178454546513920\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0scent of their freshly bathed child<\/a>or a waft of their once-favorite meal. It\u2019s left others inured to the stink of garbage and accidentally\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComradeChoppy\/status\/1548269796399075332\" target=\"_blank\">drinking spoiled milk.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAnosmia,\u201d as experts call it, is one of long covid\u2019s strangest symptoms \u2014 and researchers may be one step closer to figuring it out what causes it and how to fix it. A small study published online on Wednesday in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.add0484\" target=\"_blank\">Science Translational Medicine<\/a>\u00a0and led by researchers at Duke University, Harvard and the University of California San Diego offers a theory, and new insight, into lingering smell loss.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Post) Persistent loss of smell has left some covid-19 survivors yearning for the\u00a0scent of their freshly bathed childor a waft of their once-favorite meal. It\u2019s left others inured to the stink of garbage and accidentally\u00a0drinking spoiled milk.\u00a0\u201cAnosmia,\u201d as experts call it, is one of long covid\u2019s strangest symptoms \u2014 and researchers may be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations","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\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}