STATNEWS: Going viral: What Covid-19-related loss of smell reveals about how the mind works

[SheltieLover]

https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/14/covid-19-related-smell-loss-reveals-how-the-mind-works/

By ANN-SOPHIE BARWICH

AUGUST 14, 2020


A few months ago, a friend called me from New York in the middle of the day. “I just came out of the shower and thought of you,” she said. That exceeded our usual level of familiarity. “I cannot smell anything,” she continued. “I noticed I couldn’t sense my shower gel, so I ran into the kitchen and began to open and sniff all my spice jars. Nothing. This is spooky.”

My friend called because she knew I had just sent to my publisher the page proofs of a new book about olfaction, a subject I have been investigating for several years.

At the time, we had no clue as to why she had lost her sense of smell. Now we do: Covid-19.

More at link.

[Kali]

1. the one person I have personally spoken with who had covid, still can't taste or smell

older female, mild case apparently. just know her in passing and saw her a week or so ago...

I had a strange not-quite-loss but more of an altering of smell years ago with a bout of flu and I have a friend who lost it permanently as a kid, also flu related.

[brer cat]

2. That's a very interesting read.

Thanks for posting it.

[SheltieLover]

3. Thx

I thought it was interesting as well.