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What neurological after-effects are you talking about?

• blagie 5y ago
  https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/neurological-manifestations-of-covid/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/neurological-manifestations... https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00555-7/fulltext https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)005... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970685/ .... and so on. Acute are things like memory lapses and pretty severe deficits. Those are less common, but do occur. Very common is a small but statistically significant general decline in cognitive function.
  • Forge36 5y ago
    I wonder if this has always been the case for major illness, and the effect/study was too hard to observe.
    • NoPie 5y ago
      Most likely this. It is hard to imagine that covid has disproportional ability to cause lasting side-effects without causing causing severe disease and/or death.
      • 20after4 5y ago
        It actually does seem that this virus has a fairly unique ability to directly attack the brain.
        • NoPie 5y ago
          Sorry, it doesn't seem like that at all.
    • blagie 5y ago
      Yes, this was the case for many major diseases. It also wasn't hard to observe: * Syphilis could cause madness later in life * Polio could lead to paralysis later in life * Rabies moves up the nervous system very, very slowly, with no symptoms, and suddenly you go crazy, fear water, and die. * Lyme disease causes memory losses and cognitive dysfunction ... and so on. Good thing we managed to fight those off!