RELATED: Still without your sense of smell, post-COVID? This unique therapy might make all the differenceLinda Mcgrath said missing sense of smell nearly cost her her life after a gas leak sprung in her Livonia, Michigan, home, nearly five months after her coronavirus diagnosis.Mcgrath, 63, who was working as a nurse at the time, and had been for 23 years, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on April 8.
She said she believes she contracted the virus from a patient.“Mine was a patient who had GI symptoms, and we didn’t know until later they had COVID,” said Mcgrath, noting that in rooms with patients who were not symptomatic of COVID, nurses were not required to wear masks in the room at that time.Mcgrath, who was running 10 miles a day earlier.