STUDY: Covid Can Enter Through Your Eyes | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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Red eyes, ringing ears, sensitivity to light, trouble hearing: although a loss of taste and smell have become well-known sensory symptoms of COVID, accumulating research suggests that vision and hearing are also frequent targets of SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the disease.

More than 10 percent of people who get COVID develop some type of eye or ear symptom, according to the latest data, and both categories are among the complaints that can end up persisting for a long time. As researchers work to understand how the virus infiltrates our senses, their findings suggest that people may need to broaden the scope of warning signs for when to get tested. Instead of just a fever, cough or changes in taste and smell, the first signs of illness might include irritated eyes, hearing problems or balance issues.

Nearly two years into the pandemic, research on COVID’s effects on the eyes and ears suggests that scientists have much more to learn about how the virus affects our bodies and nervous systems, experts say. “The data are growing to suggest that there are more neural consequences of this infection than we originally thought,” says Lee Gehrke, a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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