A recently published study reveals a new side effect of COVID-19 that troubles medical experts because they do not know why this side effect happened.

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There have been many types of research published about the new Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the past few days. These kinds of research are crucial because they will shed light on how the virus negatively impacted a person's health. 

It has been recently published in Latin Post that recovered COVID-19 patients continue to experience symptoms like fever, loss of sense of smell and taste, cough, and more months after they are diagnosed with the virus. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still studying the recovery phase of recovered COVID-19 patients.

Another study was published where it was reported that COVID-19 patients were reporting another lingering sense loss, the sense of hearing. This is another discovery that recovered COVID-19 patients reported in the past few days. 

The audiologists conducted a small study from the University of Manchester. Their study was published in the International Journal of Audiology. It was written in the study that COVID-19 survivors experienced hearing complications. 

Like the previously published articles, many also said that the complication or loss of sense of hearing lasted long after being released from the hospital. This means that there are complications throughout the virus even after the recovery. 

The audiologists or members of the research team surveyed 120 adults who were hospitalized due to the virus. The data was gathered eight weeks after they were released from the hospital. Around 16 people reported that their hearing was worse.

Moreover, another eight persons reported that their hearing started to deteriorate while another eight persons have said that they suffer from tinnitus or hearing noises that are not caused by an outside source. This study from the University of Manchester troubles the doctors. 

"We already know that viruses such as measles, mumps, and meningitis can cause hearing loss, and coronaviruses can damage the nerves that carry information to and from the brain." Kevin Munro, a professor of audiology at the University of Manchester, explained. 

Professor Munro emphasized that it is possible that the COVID-19 virus could also affect the auditory or sense of hearing. Moreover, this is one of the reasons why there is a call to the World Health Organization to have some time studying the effect of COVID-19 to other body organs.

Meanwhile, the researcher emphasizes that there is still a need for further studies about the virus. This will help pinpoint how the virus affects the sense of hearing. Munro continued, "While we are reasonably confident in the differentiation of preexisting and recent changes in hearing and tinnitus, we urge caution." 

There could be more studies about how the virus affects a person's organs and the complications it may bring. It is also important to note that these complications linger for weeks, even for months after they survived the infectious and deadly COVID-19.

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