cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18206765
An analysis of people who were hospitalised with covid-19 in the first wave of the pandemic has revealed that the ongoing decline in their cognitive abilities is the equivalent to losing 10 IQ points
The cognitive abilities of people who were hospitalised with covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic remain lower than expected, even years later, and there is some evidence that this is forcing them to change jobs.
“What we found is that the average cognitive deficit was equivalent to 10 IQ points, based on what would be expected for their age, et cetera,” says Maxime Taquet at the University of Oxford.
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Hope it doesn’t hit you. There are so many long-term consequences for people who got COVID-19 in the first couple of waves. My father-in-law caught it early (long before there were vaccines), and long COVID has wrecked him. He went from being one of the strongest, most active guys I’ve ever met to being on oxygen - probably for the rest of his life.
I’ll never, ever forgive Donald Trump for his massive, incompetent bungling of the pandemic response. It resulted in so many unnecessary deaths, and many more ruined lives.