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.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year 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.

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year 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.