I've updated the link to a non-amp link.
Details of the study can be found here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v...
Does these scores correlate to scores 10 years later/etc, or should we expect these children to recover?
> However, since all study visits take place in a clinical setting, parents less concerned about the pandemic, and those with strong social support networks, may have been more likely to participate than those with greater concerns.
This seems pretty impactful to me. If you consider that people more worried about the pandemic were avoiding doctor visits, and the study showed parent's education reduced the effect they saw...
They kind of glossed over the fact that children born just before the pandemic didn't have lower scores. I'm curious about that since the first few weeks/months for newborns they are not leaving the house much, so a pandemic shouldn't have changed a whole lot there. Why were they immune if the stages were they would've expected to start leaving the house (4+ months) were taken away, just like babies born during the pandemic?
"Does these scores correlate to scores 10 years later/etc, or should we expect these children to recover?"
It may sound like a silly comparison, but puppies need to be challenged and introduced to experiences in the first weeks as there is a limited window of opportunity to stimulate neural development which results in brain development. During the first eight weeks of age, skills not acquired may be lost forever.
Maybe similar to how children can easily pick up a (new) language, but learning a language at a later age is a real struggle.