{"id":7246,"date":"2024-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2024-10-06T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T23:39:35","slug":"london-clinical-trial-targets-lingering-covid-toll-on-patients-smell-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/london-clinical-trial-targets-lingering-covid-toll-on-patients-smell-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"London clinical trial targets lingering COVID toll on patients \u2013 smell distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haunted for more than a year by phantom smells she couldn\u2019t explain, Rebecca Bruzzese said she worried about her safety and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>She could smell burning cigarettes in her living room, but no one was smoking. Beef frying on the stove smelled like \u201cexcrement in a pan.\u201d Coffee was even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt smelled like hot garbage,\u201d the 32-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to eat, Bruzzese lost 30 pounds and developed other health problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunted for more than a year by phantom smells she couldn\u2019t explain, Rebecca Bruzzese said she worried about her safety and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>She could smell burning cigarettes in her living room, but no one was smoking. Beef frying on the stove smelled like \u201cexcrement in a pan.\u201d Coffee was even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt smelled like hot garbage,\u201d the 32-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to eat, Bruzzese lost 30 pounds and developed other health problems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/london-clinical-trial-targets-lingering-covid-toll-on-patients-smell-distortion\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">London clinical trial targets lingering COVID toll on patients \u2013 smell distortion<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,391,1239,444,11,146,88,119,607,8,14,1238,1216],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-lawson-health-research-institute","tag-london","tag-long-covid","tag-loss-of-smell","tag-medical-treatments","tag-ontario","tag-parosmia","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-sgb","tag-st-josephs-health-care-london","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}