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Some COVID-19 survivors are haunted by a loss of smell and taste By Roni Caryn Rabin New York Times,Updated January 2, 2021, 1:28 p.m. Email to a Friend Katherine Hansen in her backyard in Woodinville, Wash., on Dec. 12. She lost her sense of smell after a battle with COVID-19.Jovelle Tamayo/NYT Until March, when everything started tasting like cardboard, Katherine Hansen had such a keen sense of smell that she could recreate almost any restaurant dish at home without the recipe, just by recalling the scents and flavors. Then the coronavirus arrived. One of Hansen’s first symptoms was a loss of smell, and then of taste. Hansen still cannot taste food, and says she can’t even tolerate chewing it. Now she lives mostly on soups and shakes.

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