Lost your taste and smell during COVID-19? You may have more antibodies in your system

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People who lost their sense of taste and smell during their COVID-19 infection may be more likely to develop higher antibody levels after their illness, according to international research. The team tested the blood of 300 people who had COVID-19 early in the pandemic. Just over 60% of these participants reported altered taste and smell during their infection, and the researchers say those people were more likely to have had strong levels of COVID-19 antibodies in their blood following their illness.

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Funder: This work was supported by grant K23DC019678 (author JBO) from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/national-institute-deafness-other-communication-disorders-nidcd) and the National Institutes of Health as well as through grant UL1TR001873 (non-specific award to Clinical and Translational Science Award Program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (https://ncats.nih.gov/). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. The funders did not play any role in study design, data collection/analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation.

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