The virus attacks the support cells for your olfactory system, but not the system itself. Once the disease is gone, those cells slowly replenish and you regain

The virus attacks the support cells for your olfactory system, but not the system itself. Once the disease is gone, those cells slowly replenish and you regain your sense of smell. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell