95: Post-COVID Taste Loss with Rebecca Ma
AnthroDish14 Dec 2021

95: Post-COVID Taste Loss with Rebecca Ma

When we think about COVID, we usually think about the short term health effects and terrifying stories from the ICU. However, there's a lot to learn about the ways that long haul COVID symptoms affect people. Those that experience long term symptoms are sometimes referred to as "long haulers" on Twitter threads, and you don't see much covered about their health challenges across the media. But with the high rates of infection across the US and Canada, understanding how people will be negotiating these symptoms and recovery is an important element in understanding what comes next for all of us and how to help each other in the recovery stages of the pandemic.

One of the symptoms of long COVID is a loss of taste, smell, and appetite. I've heard accounts of this in little snips across Instagram, but wasn't really sure what that meant, or just how long long COVID really was. My guest this week, Rebecca Ma, is a Masters student of food anthropology in Idaho. She is also a COVID survivor who is experiencing long COVID. Her Instagram account caught my attention a while back, @postcovideatsandsmells, as it is a documentation of her experiences trying different foods after losing taste and smell during her COVID recovery. She discusses how old favourites aren't as they were, and what new elements of food she gravitates towards through this.

We talk today about her sensory experiences with food post-COVID, and how she uses her knowledge from anthropology to bring these experiences more public through her Instagram account.

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