Losing Taste And Smell Due to COVID-19 Indicates Lower Reinfection Risk

Losing Smell and Taste to COVID-19 Linked to Lower Reinfection Risk After a mild COVID-19 infection, people who lost smell or taste were twice as likely to have antibodies that may protect against reinfection. EverydayHealth.com

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Other COVID-19 symptoms that were predominant in 2020, such as fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose, and difficulty breathing didn’t appear to influence whether people had antibodies after they recovered from an acute infection.

This suggests that loss of taste and smell are strong predictors of a longer-lasting ability to fight the virus, the study team concluded.

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