Chilling study links long Covid and higher risk of chronic neurological diseases (original) (raw)

Long Covid linked with increased risk of chronic neurological diseases says chilling new study

A new study has linked the development of brain diseases to longterm Covid-19

Those who have been previously diagnosed with Alzheimer's are shown to have shown an increased risk after having covid

A newly released study has revealed that those who suffer from the effects of long COVID-19 are at an increased risk of developing chronic neurological diseases.

The UK-based study, which was recently published in The Lancet: Psychiatry, found that a group of elderly patients who have been battling the effects of the disease for at least two to three years have begun to see their cognitive scores decline significantly.

The study revealed that one in nine people surveyed found that their intelligence quotient (IQ) had dropped more than 30 points. The World Socialist Website also reported that those who had left their jobs due to poor health were the ones who associated closer to cognitive deficits.

“The findings show that problems affecting attention and memory, as well as fatigue, depression, and anxiety, continue to afflict some people even three years after COVID-19 infection, especially those who had not recovered well by six months," one of the study's co-authors, Paul Harrison, said. Harrison went on to add that the deficits were not due to aging.

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A brand new study based in the United Kingdom has linked the development of neurological diseases to longterm covid-19 (

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Harrison continued: “These results apply only to people who needed acute hospital admission when they had COVID-19. We suspect, but do not know, whether similar kinds of problems might affect the much larger number of people who did not get hospitalized.”

The study noted that those who had been diagnosed with diseases like Alzheimer’s before getting COVID-19 have shown an acceleration of their memory loss. Those who were healthy reportedly have an increased risk of developing new-onset dementia after their infections. The researcher's concern is not just for the elderly, but also for young people. It was shown that even members of the younger generation who get a minor variation of Covid are at risk of developing memory issues and brain fog that reportedly worsen during mental exertion or stress.

Another study published by the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 113,000 people who had been asked to complete a cognitive exam just after they recovered from a Covid-19 found similar small deficits in their global cognition which had persisted past the four weeks compared to those who have never been infected. Those who were hospitalized or needed extensive medical treatment found even larger deficits.

Current estimates by research and investigators put the number of those suffering from long-covid at 410 million, or five percent of the planet’s inhabitants. The news of the daunting research comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that several thousand people would be infected in early November before climbing again during the winter holiday season.

According to the CDC, the number of infections in September declined, however, it remains at the highest level for any September of the pandemic. Despite the lull, the CDC reported that there was still a whopping 850,000 infections per day and that the 9th wave of infections produced the highest rate of transmission for this time of year.