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A study of COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom has found that loss of taste and smell were no longer among the most telling symptoms of the virus.

Most patients with long COVID continue to experience debilitating neurologic symptoms more than a year after infection, and surprisingly develop new symptoms that didn’t exist before.

A new Monell Center analysis found that 37% of COVID-19 patients actually did lose their sense of taste and that "reports of taste loss are in fact genuine and distinguishable from smell loss."

The finding could eventually help the 1.6 million people in the US who still cant smell or have had a change in their ability to smell more than 6 months after getting the coronavirus.

Although the agency was expected to also authorize an antiviral from Merck, only Pfizers was cleared for use Wednesday.