<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emchammer</author><text>The first time I contracted COVID, the other symptoms were wild, and I gave myself even odds on dying. However I did not lose my sense of smell or taste.&lt;p&gt;The second time I contracted COVID, it was mostly just a miserable fever but I lost my smell and taste, and they still have not come back completely almost a year later.&lt;p&gt;My theory is that COVID does a random walk when eating away the brain from wherever it enters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daviey</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve now had Covid 3 x times.  The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.&lt;p&gt;The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell.  I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time.  Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03244-7</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amluto</author><text>IIRC there’s decent evidence that the incidence of anosmia from Omicron is much lower than from earlier strains.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daviey</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve now had Covid 3 x times.  The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.&lt;p&gt;The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell.  I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time.  Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03244-7</url></story>