It is one of Covid’s most distinctive and curious symptoms: the loss of the sense of smell, which blights more than half of sufferers.
Among the many things the virus attacks are the receptor cells in the nose, affecting their ability to function properly.
While most people recover in a few weeks, for roughly one in ten the problem, called anosmia, lingers for a month or more.
It makes life pretty miserable. The sense of smell is intrinsically link to taste, which means sufferers commonly find food and drink become, quite literally, flavourless.
Not take the poison vax in the first place.