The coronavirus disease of 2019 is a global pandemic disease severely affecting the upper respiratory tract that can be fatal in some instances. The virus most commonly affects the respiratory system. However, in certain cases it affects the other systems, including cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, neurological, and auditory. Concerning the hearing and balance system, the microcirculation supply to the inner ear is hampered thus causing audiovestibular symptoms. Several case studies have reported sudden sensorineural hearing loss postcoronavirus disease and its detrimental impact on overall hearing. As both sudden sensorineural hearing loss and coronavirus disease deals with an emergency situation, there is a need to document case studies on how these individuals have been assessed and treated. The article has systematically reviewed these case reports involving a search strategy in databases like PubMed, PubMed Central, science direct, J-GATE, Google Scholar, and a manual Google Search.

COVID-19 has proven to be pandemic and affecting the day to day life of normal individuals. However, individuals with disability, especially with hearing impairment face even more difficulty. They are unable to get their routine evaluation and therapy, the maintenance of their hearing restoration devices has also found to be cumbersome. The strategy that they can use during this lockdown period has been discussed.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been broadly used for a long time, but in terms of hearing aids it only came into the limelight in 2004. Although at that time AI was yet to be incorporated into a hearing aid, with improvement in technology, slowly AI began to be introduced. AI included trainable hearing aids, own voice processing, brain-controlled hearing aids, strategies to improve speech perception in noise, and wind noise management in both hearing aids and cochlear implants. This short review discusses these AI technologies and their utility for the user.