"....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."

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

they also started a good shuffle on over to the left of the mean