Beaming at the camera, Adam Harkins Sullivan seems much like any fit, healthy young man his age. But each time a person is infected, a struggle begins between the virus and that person’s immune system. Studies of Covid-19 patients in south Korea and Germany have found that up to a third may experience the condition, known as anosmia. The immune system recognises an invader and kills it off. Last week, a University of Oxford trial enrolled its first Covid-19 patients from NHS hospitals, and thousands more are expected to be recruited.

Source: Daily Mail March 28, 2020 22:03 UTC