Los Angeles Times

I recovered from COVID but my nose didn’t. Here’s how I cope

Two and a half years ago, my nose stopped working. That’s when I realized how often smell comes up in daily conversation: “That Uber smelled weird,” or “that woman was wearing way too much perfume,” ...
The New York Times

And Just Like That, I Could Smell Exactly Nothing

Like any other vaxxed and boosted human, I didn’t look forward to getting Covid — not when it was life-threatening Alpha, not when it was Delta-variant dreadful, not when it was Omicron omnipresent. I ...
Today

Lindsay Czarniak shares how she’s trying to regain her sense of smell 2 years after COVID

Oatmeal with raisins, blueberries and a touch of honey, to be specific. I was three days into quarantining after being diagnosed with the coronavirus the week before Halloween in 2020. A group of my ...
Salon

How a quest to sharpen my sense of smell made me a more grateful cook

On particularly cold days in Chicago, there are brief moments when it’s like the city has no smell. You tilt your face up toward the winter sun, inhale and there’s just nothing. If an animator wanted ...
Psychology Today

Nose Job: Loss of Smell Is Not a Trivial Effect of COVID

One of the much-reported effects of SARS-COV-2, including the effects of so-called ‘Long COVID’, is a change in smell perception. The effects of this, if they are truly long-term, might be more ...