Up to 300,000 Swedes Estimated to Have Lost Sense of Smell Due to COVID-19

Between 50 and 70 percent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 experience an impaired sense of smell. While most regain their sense of smell after a few weeks, some get permanent aberrations that include a diminished or distorted sense of smell. In the most extreme cases, food smells “like a soup of cigarette butts and rotten meat”.