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So COVID-19 is a special “brain wrecking” virus ?

• danaris 6y ago
  From what I've read (mostly from articles linked here on HN), the problem with COVID-19 is that it is highly inflammatory (in the medical sense, not just the conversational one!). The brain really doesn't do well with inflammation.
• shoreofwonder 6y ago
  That's an extreme way to phrase it, but possibly yes. "Infectability of human BrainSphere neurons suggests neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2" https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article/view/1924 https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article/view/1924
• ineedasername 6y ago
  That sounds like an extreme interpretation that would put the issue forward as a straw-man to be knocked down. Instead, I would just say that COVID is a virus that causes cognitive deficits even in people with little/no other symptoms.