New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
My understanding was chicken pox is hard to get rid of because it goes into a “dormant” state where it embeds viral dna in living host nuclei.
From everything I’ve read Covid doesn’t work like that and afaik it doesn’t have some kind of dormant state.
Covid did a lot of strange things at first. It got into people’s blood systems, it lingered in taste buds, it caused brain damage. After it mutated it lost a lot of that ability and became just another cold like virus.