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London clinical trial targets lingering COVID toll on patients – smell distortion

Haunted for more than a year by phantom smells she couldn’t explain, Rebecca Bruzzese said she worried about her safety and mental health.

She could smell burning cigarettes in her living room, but no one was smoking. Beef frying on the stove smelled like “excrement in a pan.” Coffee was even worse.

“It smelled like hot garbage,” the 32-year-old said.

Unable to eat, Bruzzese lost 30 pounds and developed other health problems.

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St. Joe’s to shut down Parkwood long-COVID program due to lack of provincial funding

A London program that has been credited with helping patients with long COVID get treatment and support is shutting down because the province has not renewed its funding.

The Post-Acute COVID-19 Program at Parkwood will shut down by the end of the year and has stopped taking patients as of this month, St. Joseph’s Health Care London confirmed in a statement.

The shutdown leaves Londoners who have long COVID without a dedicated space to get treatment.

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