EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics COVID May Cause Long-Term Brain Loss, Study Says By Staff Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:21 PM A new study from researchers in the United Kingdom has found that the coronavirus may cause long-term brain loss and could be the reason some COVID-19 patients lose their sense of smell and taste. "In short, the study suggests that there could be some long-term loss of brain tissue from COVID, and that would have some long-term consequences," former FDA Director Scott Gottlieb, MD, said on CNBC's The News with Shepard Smith."You could compensate for that over time, so the symptoms of that may go away, but you're never going to regain the tissue if, in fact, it's being destroyed as a result of the virus," said Gottlieb, who is also a CNBC contributor.Head over to Medscape to read the full story.