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Re:Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain ... by aredox on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:03AM (#40061757)
That's why the most important element in science is replication - direct (repeating the same experiment) and indirect (refining the original experiment, or testing for the opposite result, or an alternative - here we could test reflexes instead of IQ).

And here there is already a lot of replication for several years - plus direct observation of bleeding into the brain.

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2024/trinity-team-di...

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Re:Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain ... by stuaxo on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:45AM (#40062014)
Thanks for this link on brain fog, I had that for a year after getting Covid early before vaccines were available.

I know there was work recently that found blood tests can find various markers of long covid, I'd like to get this done - but it's not something widely available.

A relative has been getting strange post-viral like symptoms since before Xmas (though no obvious Covid infection), would be great to get them tested too.

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Re:Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain ... by peteradio on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:42AM (#40063824)
Good study design trumps replication. If you construct a shitty misleading study and everybody jumps on the hype train to replicate you've netted negative on the replication axis.
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