#COVID19 takes a decade from your brain. This study found "a significant decline in cognitive throughput following COVID-19, after adjustment for pre-COVID-19 functioning, demographics, and medical factors. The effect sizes were large; the observed changes in throughput were equivalent to 10.6 years of normal aging and a 59.8% increase in the burden of mild cognitive impairment."
@royterdw Some folks have already suggested that COVID cognitive decline could account for the rise we're seeing in auto accidents and airplane near-misses. Here in the US, there's been a notable rise in auto deaths and accidents from 2019 to 2020 and again to 2021. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot
@augieray This is very concerning. When I look around at the world at it is right now, with stupid decisions being made all around us (examples include individuals buying more and bigger cars in a climate crisis, choosing to vote for politicians who then make promises they cannot keep, right through to those same politicians being more likely to do nothing about the climate and to start wars) I can't help but wonder how much this aging of brain function could be contributing to breakdown of our society.
@hembrow
Am I right, though, in reading this, that these results were from those who had suffered severe covid infections? Not necessarily 'mild' covid? @augieray
@badken
I read that, but it's not clear to me, as there is a huge difference between long covid and post covid. But I'm just a (probably neurodivergent) person trying to make sense of it all, not a professional. @LiberalEd@hembrow@augieray
@EllieK@badken@LiberalEd@hembrow I think that Long COVID and PACS are interchangeably. I'm still unclear, however, on if there's a distinction to be made between someone who has symptoms that resolve after several months and someone who has longer-term Long COVID. I'm not sure science has quite figured that out, yet.
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