Gwyneth Paltrow says her husband lost his taste and smell for 9 months due to COVID-19

[tabloidpersona]

Gwyneth Paltrow reveals husband Brad Falchuk 'got his taste and smell back' nine months after they tested positive for COVID-19 https://t.co/1KU5BcN5t8
- Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) March 6, 2021
Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about the lingering effects of COVID-19 in an interview with People Magazine

Comments

[genbu_no_miko24]

Oh wow that's horrible D:!

I heard about a correspondent from CNN having a similar thing. Her husband lost his sense of taste and is only~ now returning!

Thats why I don't play with this virus, you really don't know how this will effect you! It's either short or long-term D:

[kansascshuffle]

But people are still out there saying "oh there's 0.00001% chance it will kill you, why are you afraid!". And I'm like, dying is the least of my problems. I wouldn't care anymore if I was dead. I would care about getting permanent lung and heart damage, plus milder stuff like the taste loss.

[euraylie]

And the loss of taste and smell is so underestimated. It has a huge psychological impact and often leads to severe depression. It was part of the reason Michael Hutchence was so fucked up

[boomstick]

Yeah. It would be less scary if they knew exactly what caused bad symptoms. But it's a total crapshoot. You could be totally asymptomatic. You could get a flu. You could be sick for months, years, or the rest of your life. Or you could die.

There's no way of knowing how it will affect you, even if you're young and perfectly healthy. That's what people aren't getting.

[slinkydinks]

This is where having had good, deferential leadership at the beginning would have made ALL the difference.

What people are missing is that: 1) it's not just about you, 2) you could infect people who ARE at higher risk of becoming seriously ill/dying, 3) the hospitals become overloaded which means they can't treat other stuff and more people die, 4) if *everyone* did their part for a short but painful time, we could have "reopened" much, much earlier. But alas, our leaders are a bunch of money-grubbing numb-nuts.

[arellaj]

Exactly! I'm more terrified of the long term effects of it. I read a couple articles about athletes who were in good shape and in their 20s getting strokes and shit after getting and recovering from covid. Shit is scary.

[rihaty]

Research is showing that vaccines help with long term COVID symptoms, both in helping those that currently have them as well as preventing them.

[veal]

Yep. My friend has been a YEAR with no taste or smell now. She can sometime catch a whiff of a smell a couple times a week, but it’s only bad smells so far. And she mostly eats spicy food and drinks whisky now because she can at least feel the burning sensation and it’s something.