Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/bJtF6l7KcFs   More than two-thirds of those infected with CoVid continue to suffer some olfactory problems in some form at least 18 months later.  Neuroscientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute report this and other related finding following their longitudinal studies of 100 CoVid-infected individuals.  A group of 44 non-infected persons served as controls.   The 18 month’s post-infection analysis revealed that 4% of the previously-infected couldn’t smell at all and 33% had a significantly reduced sense of smell.  An additional 30% of those infected had a distorted sense of smell, bringing the total to 67%.  The infected experienced significantly more nasal discomfort than the uninfected.  On the brighter side, only 3% of the infected continued to experience taste disorders.   The take home point: you don’t want to catch CoVid.  Get vaccinated and boosted, mask up with an N95 or KN95 mask more often than not when away from home, and stay as far away from possibly infected person