Losing Your Sense of Taste and Smell With the Coronavirus

 One day within the spring of 2020, round the time much of the country went on lockdown to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, Sara Buursma felt run-down and was battling a low-grade fever. "I was working tons , and that i have three young kids," she says. " I thought it had been a standard cold ." Three days later, Buursma lost two of her major senses. "I couldn't smell anything," she says. "I tried smelling essential oils and flavorer , which usually makes my eyes water. i could not smell anything."   Buursma also was unable to taste food – including her favorite flavor of Ben & Jerry's frozen dessert . "I was so disappointed," she says. "You want something good to eat when you are feeling terrible."   Three weeks later, Buursma experienced chest congestion and a severe, dry cough. Shortly then , she was diagnosed with COVID-19. The diagnosis explained Buursma's sudden loss of taste and smell.   ...