Covid-19: loss of smell and taste

»From one day to the next, I could no longer smell or taste anything,« says Benjamin Edthofer, who caught an omicron infection at the end of January. Especially bad in his case: Edthofer is a sommelier at the wine bar Heunisch und Erben in Vienna’s third district. »I didn't actually have any symptoms. I wasn't sick,« Edthofer recalls, »but I suddenly couldn't distinguish four completely different wines by smell. All four smelled completely the same to me, or rather, they smelled like nothing at all.«