Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by irq11 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:39AM (#24848305)

A bigger problem on HN these days is the highbrow lowbrow dismissal, wherein people come up with fancy-sounding reasons for rejecting comments, that are actually themselves lazy/incorrect arguments.

For example: when the paper itself says that the cognitive declines seen in people who don’t spend time hospitalized are a small fraction of the magnitude of the cognitive declines seen in hospitalized patients (Figures 2, 3; in some cases a cognitive benefit is seen in mild cases), yet a comment observing that the effects are confined to a small population is dismissed for the reason that “professional medical researchers would have thought of that”.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by rfrey on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:59AM (#24848499)

I was specifically referring to the claim the effects were probably due to sedation, etc. , not the observation that the study was of hospitalized cases.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by irq11 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:14AM (#24848614)

So? The OP observed that the most severe effects were in a very small population of hospitalized patients. You fixated on a (plausible) hypothesis made that this could be due to sedation, and used it to reject the entire argument, even though the OP’s point is right, and your argument is a lowbrow dismissal that “experts would have thought of it”.

By the way: as far as I can tell, the paper doesn’t discuss this issue anywhere.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by irq11 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:32PM (#24851841)

So, your only response is to make an insult based on my comment history.

What a compelling, “high brow” response.

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