Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn’t smell Vick’s VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn’t have COVID. It’s possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn’t panic about it.
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn’t smell Vick’s VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn’t have COVID. It’s possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn’t panic about it.
When was this? For the first year and a half or so, the more commonly used test kits had something like a 40% false negative rate.
I had this twice, the first time was at least 25 years ago.
I don’t recall. But I took the pharmacy test too, the more accurate one.