Mine blew up like that too. I was in the time of delta, though.
It’s been 3 months since I had it. I had lost smell/taste a few days into it but that seemed to get better after a month or so. Now, all of a sudden, my sense of taste has gone haywire in the last two weeks. Peanut butter and rice smell and taste weird - two of my favorites. And now I smell a burning odor at different times.