I thought omicron didn’t cause as much loss of sense of smell as previous strains? I was thinking of that (very tentatively) as a good sign, like “omicron is less of a destroyer of nerve cells”, and I think of nerve cells as being unusually difficult to heal, cf. polio. (Omicron does cause brain fog, which is bad but not necessarily associated with the killing of nerve cells, or at least that’s my vague impression / guess.) Low confidence on all this.
I thought omicron didn’t cause as much loss of sense of smell as previous strains? I was thinking of that (very tentatively) as a good sign, like “omicron is less of a destroyer of nerve cells”, and I think of nerve cells as being unusually difficult to heal, cf. polio. (Omicron does cause brain fog, which is bad but not necessarily associated with the killing of nerve cells, or at least that’s my vague impression / guess.) Low confidence on all this.
Hmm, ya, that seems right. From a quick Google search: https://www.businessinsider.com/loss-of-taste-smell-not-common-covid-symptoms-2022-1.
Maybe Omicron just doesn’t get as deep in the body generally, too, then. That would be a good sign, too.