When the ability to smell goes away
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About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell.
Key facts
- There have been 780 million reported cases of Covid-19 since December 2019 (and many more unreported), according to the World Health Organization, and smell loss is a well-known symptom
- Their baseline score was compared to their six‐month score, and an improvement of 10 percent or better was rated as significant; of 19 patients in the experimental group, six showed significant
- About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell
- Patel, director of the Stanford Initiative to Cure Smell and Taste Loss
Summary
She was diagnosed with anosmia (smell loss), and like many patients with her condition, was told she’d have to learn to live with it. Researchers estimate that up to 22 percent of the population lives with smell impairments, like hyposmia (partial smell loss) or anosmia (complete smell loss). The pandemic changed that. With Covid causing millions of noses worldwide to malfunction at roughly the same time, the virus spurred newfound appreciation for, and research into, this critical sense.