SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure

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> The infected participants also showed on average larger cognitive decline between the two timepoints. Importantly, these imaging and cognitive longitudinal effects were still seen after excluding the 15 cases who had been hospitalised.

The paper is a little dense, but Business Insider summarizes as follows:

> Researchers estimate the changes, which can impair cognitive function, correspond to an extra 1 to 10 years of aging.

(https://www.businessinsider.com/mild-covid-damage-age-brain-...)

Tongue in cheek: the structural changes can’t be as dramatic as the ones brought on by social media fixation on COVID-19.

Fixation? A million deaths in the US alone? Perhaps 10s of millions of hospitalizations, and widespread long term illness and suffering? What else could it fixate on?

Perhaps the secondary consequences of the actions take to allegedly avoid deaths, which may or may not have actually avoided deaths, but most assuredly and profoundly affected children in a negative way. Especially poor children.

We should have focused on that. We should have found any way possoble to not blight a generation of children on the basis that grandmothers who would die in 18 months may die in 12 months instead. It may sound harsh, but that’s what we should have done.

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