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Re:Covid-19 Can Damage the Brain by monkeydreams on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:32PM (#24500914)
A shared characteristic (and that is still a long bow to draw) does not imply equality.
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Re:Covid-19 Can Damage the Brain by guscost on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:35AM (#24501541)
You are correct - for an average person, fear of COVID-19 will cause quite a lot more brain damage than the disease itself:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26651008/

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Re:Covid-19 Can Damage the Brain by monkeydreams on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:07AM (#24501947)
What a wit! For the average person who contracts COVID-19 it will cause quite a bit of incidental distress, and quite likely long-lasting damage to brain and cardio-vascular system.
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Re:Covid-19 Can Damage the Brain by guscost on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:49AM (#24503457)
“Quite likely”? That’s a heck of a claim to base on zero evidence. In fact this press release appears to contradict it:

> Symptoms affecting the central nervous system occurred in at least 0.04% of people with SARS and in 0.2% of those with MERS. Given that there are now 28.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, this could imply that between 10,000 and 50,000 people have experienced neurological complications.

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