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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRecent study of effects of Covid-19 on brain
I saw an OP from 2021, but a different article. This link is more recent:
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/03/brain-shrinkage-tissue-damage-cognitive-disruption-what-covid-can-do-to-patients-brains.html
You wouldn't think that anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers would have any brain to shrink. :/
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)unless you got vaxxed with a modicum of critical thinking skills that is
Bucky
(53,795 posts)But damn, you're on point
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)oregonjen
(3,316 posts)a more current study with patients who have been vaccinated and had a breakthrough case.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Caring for a sick relative
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)as the mass death event we're currently going through, and pretending it's over or that we can just swing back into our normal daily lives is hugely harmful.
PortTack
(32,606 posts)Sadly another new variant has been identified- omicron BA.2.2. As infectious as omicron and as deadly as delta
I dont care how many sideways glances I get, I will not stop wearing my mask!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)She was infected there, and she's had long-haul problems thereafter.
She's a bright woman, but she insists that she can't think as well anymore. Her coordination was affected too, so she's been working from home for many months at a much lower pay rate from the same university hospital. (She calls people to urge them to get vaccinated.)
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)of the people that chose not to be vaccinated.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)n/t
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)I take various sorts of cognitive assessment tests on an irregular basis and have found myself slipping over the years.
Age and alcohol use seem to have more permanent effets than other things. More "other things" need to be tested.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)I'm turning 59 and I've also noted I'm not as sharp as I used to be. Not dramatically so, but I certainly have more frequent brain farts and it's harder for me to learn students' names each new year that I teach.
That's just age hitting us. I've been told that developing new interests and playing lots of Scrabble games makes a difference.
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)She mentioned that they've had many new dialysis patients who are younger. They developed kidney failaure after Covid-19 illness. New daily eating and drinking habits, plus 3 days a week, up to 6 hours a day, hooked to a machine, maybe your new schedule for the rest of your life.
Covid-19 is like a land mine. You don't know where you'll run into it, or what kind of damage it'll do.
All of us who are wavering in our resolve to avoid this illness, try to hang on. It isn't over, and maybe there is a fate worse than death if you do get it.
wishstar
(5,267 posts)Both a close relative and a close friend I hadn't wanted to be around for several years due to their extreme politics contracted Covid and both had excruciating ordeals lasting months for one and several weeks for the other. Both also required surgery to remove part of their colons due to infection plus were put on ventilators. They were in their seventies, one in Florida, the other in Tennessee and neither one distanced, masked or got the vaccine.
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)That's a perfect description. You don't know what a so-called "mild" infection might do depending on where the virus manages to settle in the body if it makes it past the respiratory system. The vaccines try to get it early on but if the load is large enough and the body doesn't respond fast enough, its affinity to attaching to the ACE2 receptors located through the body beyond those in the respiratory system (digestive system, renal system, nervous system, cardiac/circulatory system) can mean damage there that can truly impact one's long term health and quality of life.
bif
(22,559 posts)He's an automotive engineer and he frequently has days where he can't concentrate at all and has to take time off. We won't know the long-term effects for years.