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A WEEK or so after Jackie Dishner lost both her sense of taste and smell, her diagnosis was confirmed – she had covid-19.
Dishner, an artist living in Phoenix, Arizona, knew that anosmia was a possible symptom of the disease, but she never imagined that after six months, most smells would still elude her, except perhaps the whiff of a particularly strong cup of coffee. She would also occasionally detect phantom odours.
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