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.”

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
    103·
    10 months ago

    America can’t afford significant drops in IQ scores. Half the population is already at the same level as the humans in the old Planet Of The Apes movie.