The antiviral drug ensitrelvir eases both smell and taste loss, and is one of the few COVID-19 drugs available to people not at high risk of grave illness.

New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.

  • @YoBuckStopsHereEnglish
    -7•9 months ago

    The medication would be what the story is about. It’s like Chicken Pox, we never get rid of the virus, it lives inside of us until it appears again as Shingles. In some people covid appears to survive for years unless treated.

            • GroteStreet 🦘English
              2•9 months ago

              Ah. So the article that - after mentioning all the other scary stuff like ebola and HIV - concluded with 10 paragraphs basically saying how sars-cov-2 is quite dissimilar to them? How most other coronavirus infections are short-lived?

              Or, “Covid-19 long-haulers are probably not dealing with the virus for months on end. Rather, … that the immune system is trying to repair the damage”.

              The one that ends with the quote that, for the majority of people, "It gets in, it gets out”?

    • @Fedizen
      3•9 months ago

      My understanding was chicken pox is hard to get rid of because it goes into a “dormant” state where it embeds viral dna in living host nuclei.

      From everything I’ve read Covid doesn’t work like that and afaik it doesn’t have some kind of dormant state.

      • @YoBuckStopsHereEnglish
        -2•9 months ago

        Covid did a lot of strange things at first. It got into people’s blood systems, it lingered in taste buds, it caused brain damage. After it mutated it lost a lot of that ability and became just another cold like virus.