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2020-10-28 Science & Technology
COVID-19 causes ‘chronic' cognitive deficits equivalent to brain aging 10 years
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-28 12:54|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Does it take 10 years for said deficits to appear?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-10-28 13:10||   2020-10-28 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Brilliant question, you should work for CNN.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-28 13:17||   2020-10-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Other experts not involved in the study warned that the results should be viewed with some caution — especially because the study did not record before-and-after cognitive test scores.
Posted by Bobby 2020-10-28 13:22||   2020-10-28 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 UK - sure that isn't from being locked up and chronic drinking?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-28 13:23||   2020-10-28 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh FFS, they have no previous data point to compare only that people are having a difficult time concentrating - also a symptom of sitting at home for 6 months watching fkn nurses with nothing else to do make tik tok videos and drink.

That would be like a pro athlete blowing their ACL in the film business, but nobody is like Ah, Tom Hanks, We'll Miss You! He's like, you know while I'm making my next movie I'm going to move to Greece.

Trump travels so much he makes Monarch Butterflies look like a bunch of mom's basement soy boys and he doesn't come across as dotty or confused.

Name me one system of the body which doesn't atrophy by not using it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-28 13:55||   2020-10-28 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 "yeah, their IQ dropped 8.5 points."

"What was it before?"

"Actually, we don't know."

jeez.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-28 13:57||   2020-10-28 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Science!
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-28 14:00||   2020-10-28 14:00|| Front Page Top

#8 She Blinded me with Science

Posted by Warthog 2020-10-28 15:29||   2020-10-28 15:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Most people mount a strong antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 that does not decline rapidly: study
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-28 15:44||   2020-10-28 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 So how many times has Biden had it now?
Posted by Glenmore 2020-10-28 18:01||   2020-10-28 18:01|| Front Page Top

#11 His IQ is down to 47, so he's had it twice.
Posted by gorb 2020-10-28 18:11||   2020-10-28 18:11|| Front Page Top

#12 I think I can say this for most Rantburgers. I have been coming here for damn near 18 years. GROM , go fuck off with your covid bullshit.
Posted by Chris 2020-10-28 22:36||   2020-10-28 22:36|| Front Page Top

#13 his IQ wasn't that before dementia
Posted by Chris 2020-10-28 22:37||   2020-10-28 22:37|| Front Page Top

#14 From the article:

“The cognitive function of the participants was not known pre-COVID, and the results also do not reflect long-term recovery — so any effects on cognition may be short-term,” Joanna Wardlaw, a professor of applied neuroimaging at Edinburgh University, told Reuters.

That sounds exactly like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which sometimes resolves itself spontaneously within the first year or three. But sometimes it does not, and the scientists are currently talking about some smallish percent of Covid patients experiencing a slow infection — call it chronic-like — versus the usual acute form.

I suspect they will discover that most infections act like this sometimes, and that influenza has been doing this all along without anyone paying any attention to those debilitated by it.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-28 23:10||   2020-10-28 23:10|| Front Page Top

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