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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn't smell Vick's VapoRub, 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.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't recall. But I took the pharmacy test too, the more accurate one.

I had this twice, the first time was at least 25 years ago.