May be because of the need of the hour and also may be because of other symptoms of COVID which are more common than COVID tongue.The need of the hour is to maintain distance from each other to stop the spread of the virus. Medical care facilities have undergone a massive physical change to fit as per the COVID safety guidelines. Doctors focus on common symptoms like fever and cough and check the heart, lungs, abdomen in serious conditions. In addition to this, presence of more common COVID symptoms do not generate the need to look for other symptoms.

Since everyone is wearing a mask doctors do not ask the patients to remove it as it would increase the risk of infection for the patient."Patients are usually wearing a mask and I don't ask them to take their mask off," Dr. Richard Watkins, MD, an infectious disease physician and professor of internal medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University tells Health."Many physicians focus on the heart, lungs, and abdomen and, in the age of COVID-19, they pass on examining the mouth even more because it can increase their risk of getting infected," Thomas Russo, MD, professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York also told the journal. "This has probably been missed in a lot of individuals."