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Elizabeth Simins had all the typical symptoms of Covid after testing positive for the virus June 25. For about a week, Simins, 34, of Portland, Oregon, felt dizzy, fluish and out of breath.
When the BA.5 omicron subvariant became the dominant strain in the U.S., for example, COVID patients began reporting extreme fatigue more often and loss of taste or smell less.
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The median delay for COVID-19 is four to five days [17] possibly being infectious on 1–4 of those days. [18] Most symptomatic people experience symptoms within two to seven days after exposure, and almost all will experience at least one symptom within 12 days. [17] [19] Most people recover from the acute phase of the disease.
Loss of smell, by contrast, became less widespread, and the rate of hospital admissions declined compared to summer and fall 2021. Doctors now describe a clearer, more consistent pattern of symptoms.
Some people lose the sense of smell and taste after COVID-19, making eating and drinking an unpleasant chore. Try some of these choices to make mealtime more pleasant.
The altered sense of taste and smell “is much less common with Omicron,” Dr. Russo says. “It was much more common with the Alpha and Delta variants,” he says.
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