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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by ineedasername on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:20AM (#24848684)
Please note that according to this study people who weren't critically ill still had cognitive deficits.

Otherwise: Yes, other illnesses can have similar effects. Now we have another illness that piles more people on top of that. It adds to the number of people who get critically ill. It's not that Covid is worse than some other health problems, it's that Covid's impact is in addition to the ones that existed.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by bamboozled on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:22AM (#24848709)
So COVID-19 is a special “brain wrecking” virus ?
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by ineedasername on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:04PM (#24850952)
That sounds like an extreme interpretation that would put the issue forward as a straw-man to be knocked down. Instead, I would just say that COVID is a virus that causes cognitive deficits even in people with little/no other symptoms.
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by danaris on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:42AM (#24848913)
From what I've read (mostly from articles linked here on HN), the problem with COVID-19 is that it is highly inflammatory (in the medical sense, not just the conversational one!).

The brain really doesn't do well with inflammation.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by shoreofwonder on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:14PM (#24849231)
That's an extreme way to phrase it, but possibly yes.

"Infectability of human BrainSphere neurons suggests neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2"

https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article/view/1924

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