'Disconnection, isolation, depression': Long COVID has heightened our awareness of the critical role sense plays in life

The number of people experiencing lost or distorted olfaction has risen astronomically during the COVID-19 pandemic. One study indicates that as many as 62 percent of patients who tested positive for the virus experienced smell loss (known clinically as anosmia).

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