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| Lost your taste and smell from COVID-19? |
| You may have to wait up to a year to fully recover, a new study found. |
| Researchers followed 97 patients who lost their senses of taste and smell for a year and asked them to complete a survey every four months, according to the study in JAMA Network Open. |
| Out of 97 patients, 51 of them also were asked to undergo objective testing to corroborate the self-reported surveys. At eight months, 49 out of the 51 patients had fully recovered their senses of taste and smell. One of the two patients who had not recovered was able to smell, but abnormally, while the other still couldn't smell by the end of the study. |
| It's Friday, and this is the Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know: |
| • | The first cruise ship to board passengers at a U.S. port in 15 months is set to sail Saturday from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | | • | South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Thursday preventing people from suing companies over COVID-19. The new law protects businesses and other groups as long as they follow guidelines to protect people from the virus. Dozens of other states have passed similar measures. | | • | The White House said it will provide Afghanistan with 3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine to help with an outbreak fueled by the Delta variant. | | • | After leading the world in vaccinations, Israel is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces after the arrival of the highly contagious Delta variant drove new cases. | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 33.5 million COVID-19 cases and 603,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 180.1 million cases and more than 3.9 million deaths. Nearly 54% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 45% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. |
| Tracking the pandemic: See the numbers in your area here. See where cases are rising here. See vaccination rates here. And here, compare vaccinations rates worldwide and see which countries are using which vaccines. |
| – Grace Hauck, USA TODAY breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck |
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