The SARS-CoV-2 terrible toll on the brain

33.6% (one in 3) of Covid-19 survivors get a neuropsychiatric diagnosis within 6 months of the infection. One in 8 (12.8%) have received this diagnosis for the first time. Stroke, dementia, cognitive decline, psychosis, the works. Mechanisms may involve hypoxia, autoimmune syndromes, embolism, or direct viral encephalitis. I find it terrible. By the way, good luck finding the same in patients who have recovered from the flu, for those who continue to think of Covid-19 as a little flu.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.16.21249950v1.full.pdf

 

I wonder of covid's "terrible toll on the brain" is as great as alcohol's toll on the brain?

 

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/1/132/htm

The virus gets more concentration in the brain than in the lungs of infected mice, which can explain dizziness/headaches/brain fog (a.k.a. cognitive impairment) in humans.

"Situations in which patients seem better, get discharged, then see their conditions worsen, have become common over the course of the pandemic. New research suggests it may be related to infections in the brain.

"People seem to have very nice recovery, lung functions are fine, and we send them home just to find out that three days later, the patient becomes so severe that they died," Mukesh Kumar, a virologist at Georgia State University, told Insider. "That usually can only happen when the brain is involved."

 

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