JOHN LEICESTER
Dr. Clair Vandersteen, right, wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, on Feb. 8 to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia loss of smell draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione. (AP photo)
NICE, France The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient’s right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light.