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LINGERING EFFECTS
MATTHEW LEBLANC | The Journal Gazette
The virus wasn t done with her.
Melissa Rinehart, 50, tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-October after enduring what she thought was a sinus infection. The executive director of Wellspring Interfaith Social Services – a Fort Wayne charity that offers a food bank and programs for children and adults – later suffered “indescribable headaches” and lost her sense of taste.
That was just the start of an unwanted journey into the clutches of a treacherous disease that so far has infected nearly 10% of Indiana s roughly 6.7 million residents and killed 9,267 Hoosiers as of Friday.
“Even when I thought I was out of the woods, I had an emergency room visit several weeks after my symptoms (subsided),” Rinehart said in an interview last week.