nicole haskell also suffers from exhaustion during her illness with coronavirus she lost her sense of taste and smell 3 months later she can still barely smell anything not even her morning coffee does for me it's very limiting because i can't really explain it it's something that really affects my quality of life. the cause could be an impairment in the old factory bold during the sars outbreak in 2002 experiments on animals showed the virus could work its way through the nerve endings in the linings of the nose and the olfactory nerve to the brain's own factory system before heading on over the sign up says it's likely that this can also occur with covert 19 scotto it's actually so they could be that some of these patients have actually suffered some brain damage because with patients who present only with impairments to their senses of taste and smell which is a common neurological symptom when we investigate them with m.r. imaging we can see damage to the factory bulb. the psychological stress caused by the pandemic could play a role to recall haskett hope she'll one day return to