New studies confirm bizarre COVID-19 symptoms - Yahoo News

Another recently published study concludes that anosmia and dysgeusia, common symptoms of COVID-19 that results in loss of smell and/or taste, have the potential to linger longer than other ailments related to the virus.

“Although altered sense of smell or taste showed an improvement in most cases during the course of the disease, these symptoms were still the most frequently reported by patients with COVID-19 four weeks after testing," the researchers revealed. .

When it comes to understanding the virus, Banerji says COVID-19 is called the great imitator, since it takes on many symptoms associated with other illnesses

“It can be no symptoms, it can be minimal symptoms, it can be neurological symptoms,” she says

Stephen Hoption Cann, a clinical professor in the school of population public health at the University of British Columbia, says it can be challenging to understand the symptoms of COVID-19, especially when patients are being prescribed drugs. 

“You’ve got these symptoms occurring and patients are on a variety of drugs so it’s difficult to tease apart which ones the drugs people may be taking to treat the illness and those that are caused by the infection itself.”