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Remember all the articles claiming covid gave you brain damage? What ever happened to that?

• CharlesW 5y ago
  What happened is that we have a better understanding of the kind of brain damage it does, and how it does it.
• nicoburns 5y ago
  It's not a high percentage of cases. But there are significant number of people reporting long-term issues with brain fog post-covid. Whether that's actually caused by a brain issue I don't know. But it certainly seems to be able to effect your ability to think.
• betterunix2 5y ago
  Not very hard to find the current, best understanding of the phenomenon: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Current-Research/Coronavirus-and-NINDS/nervous-system#complications https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Current-Research/Coronavirus-and-N...
  • gotoeleven 5y ago
    Compare the nih link above to the hysteria from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27975514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27975514
• kadoban 5y ago
  There was some initial fear that anosmia might be related to brain damage (since basically ruled out I believe). One of the common long covid symptoms is "brain fog" though. Which I _think_ is probably metabolic or circulatory or something, but definitely affects the brain whatever the actual cause is.