Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

From the article:

“…two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine shed further light on the profound toll of COVID-19 on cognitive health.” And in other studies cases “with mild to moderate COVID-19 showed significant prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that are commensurate with seven years of brain aging.”

  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
    34·
    8 months ago

    From the article: " Reinfection with the virus contributed an additional two-point loss in IQ, as compared with no reinfection." So yes, there can be a compounding. It’s research like this that makes me want to keep my ‘mask, handwash, neti washing, indoor air filtration, avoid crowds indoors, etc’ policy in place. Sigh.

    • fᵣₑfᵢ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      161·
      8 months ago

      Thank you, I must’ve missed that part 😅

      I agree with you there.

      I think a lot of people who don’t care about the virus are the ones who should be the most concerned about these findings

      • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
        41·
        8 months ago

        I would have to agree. Alas, it’s entirely possible that their loss of cognitive function, decreased I.Q., is preventing them from this sort of understanding.