(Times of Israel) Nathan Jeffay - Noam Sobel, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science's Department of Neurobiology, notes that coronavirus victims experience a sudden inability to smell and has built a website to help people keep tabs on their odor-assessing abilities. At smelltracker.org, users select five items they have in stock at home and are happy to smell daily. Choices include honey, peanut butter, vinegar, freshly chopped garlic, and toothpaste. They receive a reminder to sniff each item each day, and adjust on-screen sliders to rate its strength and pleasantness. If their sensitivity to an odor changes significantly, the site warns them.
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