To be "basically verbatim," there would need to be a sentence making the same assertion with different wording. It's true that the paper appears to show cognit

To be "basically verbatim," there would need to be a sentence making the same assertion with different wording. It's true that the paper appears to show cognitive differences lasting months among some subsets of people with previous COVID-19 infections in the UK. It is not true that the paper asserts that being a "COVID-19 survivor" reduces IQ by 7. This is not only not "basically verbatim", but not among the assertions made by this paper.