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'Profound' smell loss is a common COVID-19 symptom, study confirms | Live Science
"Among the Covid-19 patients with smell or taste loss, the decrease in sensation was often "profound, not mild," according to the UC San Diego statement. However, the majority of patients recovered their sense of smell and taste within about 2 to 4 weeks, around the time they'd recovered from infection.
"Among the Covid-19 patients with smell loss, more than 70 percent had reported improvement of smell at the time of survey and of those who hadn't reported improvement many had only been diagnosed recently," Yan said."
On April 15, there was not a lot of longterm data. I’ll try and dig out data from some later sources tomorrow. There’s still not a lot of data on this - as some predict recovering smell/taste will take up to a year for some people. I’ll bet that in a year, there will still be some with loss (but not contagious).