Straub died in Manhattan from complications after breaking a hip. Friends and peers including Stephen King and Neil Gaiman shared solemn tributes online.
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a well-known hallmark of the disease. Covid patients lose this.
As well as explaining the abrupt loss of smell that has become a well-known hallmark of COVID-19, new research could shed new light on conditions like "brain fog.”