ATLANTA (CNN) — Alisson Clark first knew she definitely had COVID-19 last September when she lost her sense of smell.
"I grabbed a cup of coffee in the morning, and it just tasted hot," said Clark, who is a national media strategist at the University of Florida.
"I had felt so good while I was quarantining I thought maybe this was a false positive but then when that happened I thought 'OK, it's real,'" Clark said.
A few months later, she was washing her hair with her favorite scented shampoo when she noticed an unusual odor.
"Lavender is my favorite smell, but now the shampoo smelled like sulfur and gunpowder," she said.