I’m just hypothesizing here but a person in their 90s will require more time to mount an effective antibody response to the invading pathogen than a person in their 30s-40s due to thymic involution. Since it takes more time to respond to the invading pathogen, the invading pathogen has more time to do damage to the host. I wonder if they just had more of these olfactory cells killed and will, consequently, need more time to recover.
What was so odd to all of us is that my father is a retired dentist, my sister was a dental hygienist and none of us could figure out what could cause such a symptom. It wasn’t until weeks later we found that’s exactly what Covid does.
Still when you consider all we went through in 2020 and the elderly that died you can imagine how fortunate we are to still have my parents here with us.
And how they actually recovered in relatively short time. Then the hospital didn’t even test for Covid they couldn’t. And it wasn’t even on their minds. Or mine then despite I heard of Covid by then from War Room. It didn’t compute.