Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores

[Anonymous]

This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

[Anonymous]

What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

[Anonymous]

Then society has to deal with a collective three-point loss of IQ. Covid is endemic. This is the world we have to live in. Wringing hands about it isn’t going to do any good.

Get vaccinated and go on with your life.

[Anonymous]

Ok, it's only a cold that can have mild cognitive effects then. I think watching right wing news has a larger effect on lowering the IQ though.

[Anonymous]

Have they done this kind of research on other viruses? How do we know the flu for example doesn't lead to the same deficits? And what of it? We can't stay home forever...

[Anonymous]

Anecdotally, I have experienced this, as have my family members. And for my family members who have had covid several times, the negative cognitive effects are huge.

[Anonymous]

And this is one reason why I still avoid crowds and mask in public, but it does help that I am introverted anyhow.

The side effects of getting Covid case after case seem to be much more serious than just a cold or even the regular flu. There has been some research into flu shots and Alzheimer's: people who receive the flu shot are less likely to develop Alzheimer's than those who don't.

My great grandparents both died from viral Parkinson's later in life, after having the "Spanish flu," so I know I have the genetics somewhere in me to possibly have a bad reaction decades down the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

Did you click through to the study?

“In a multiple regression analysis, participants who had recovered from Covid-19 in whom symptoms had resolved in less than 4 weeks or at least 12 weeks had similar small deficits in global cognition as compared with those in the no–Covid-19 group, who had not been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or had unconfirmed infection”

Everyone showed the same drop because we lose capacity as we age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

The Conversation is not worth reading, much less reposting. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/ogji5c/thoughts_on_theconversationcom/

[Anonymous]

Yup. This has been observed. No one wants to look at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

Did you click through to the study?

“In a multiple regression analysis, participants who had recovered from Covid-19 in whom symptoms had resolved in less than 4 weeks or at least 12 weeks had similar small deficits in global cognition as compared with those in the no–Covid-19 group, who had not been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or had unconfirmed infection”

Everyone showed the same drop because we lose capacity as we age.

Some people were entirely recovered from covid in 4 weeks but many people had symptoms (from loss of smell to fatigue to other symptoms) that lasted longer than 4 weeks. Maybe you find your quote reassuring; to me, it is the opposite.

[Anonymous]

What do you suggest? I’d rather be slightly dumber than a hermit with no friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup. This has been observed. No one wants to look at it.

+1

But of course no one wants to look at it. It's better not to know, now. In a few decades, then studies will be more acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

Did you click through to the study?

“In a multiple regression analysis, participants who had recovered from Covid-19 in whom symptoms had resolved in less than 4 weeks or at least 12 weeks had similar small deficits in global cognition as compared with those in the no–Covid-19 group, who had not been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or had unconfirmed infection”

Everyone showed the same drop because we lose capacity as we age.

Oh, wow. Thanks so much for calling that out. What a deceptive article!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then society has to deal with a collective three-point loss of IQ. Covid is endemic. This is the world we have to live in. Wringing hands about it isn’t going to do any good.

Get vaccinated and go on with your life.

Vaxxed and unvaxxed get covid.