People who had COVID-19 are at higher risk for a host of brain injuries a year later compared with people who were never infected by the coronavirus, a finding that could affect millions of Americans, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
The year-long study, published in Nature Medicine, assessed brain health across 44 different disorders using medical records without patient identifiers from millions of U.S. veterans.
Brain and other neurological disorders occurred in 7% more of those who had been infected with COVID compared with a similar group of veterans who had never been infected. That translates into roughly 6.6 million Americans who had brain impairments linked with their COVID infections, the team said.
“The results show the devastating long-term effects of COVID-19,” senior author Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University School of Medicine said in a statement.
Al-Aly and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System studied medical records from 154,000 U.S. veterans who had tested positive for COVID from March 1, 2020 to Jan. 15, 2021.
They compared these with records from 5.6 million patients who did not have COVID during the same time frame, and another group of 5.8 million people from the period just before the coronavirus arrived in the United States.
Al-Aly said prior studies looked at a narrower group of disorders, and were focused largely on hospitalized patients, whereas his study included both hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients.
That explains O’Biden and Harris being sooooo stupid
No, obiden and harris have been stupid all their adult lives
And how many of them were fully vaxed?? Or partially vaxed???
I had Covid twice. Last time was the worst. After recovering I lost most of my sense of Smell and it still hasn’t recovered. I have problems concentrating, so I take Previgen to help focus, and I fall asleep in my recliner just watching TV and this never happened to me before. I am sixty, and I have doubts will make it to retirement, or if I do, I many not have the mental facilities to enjoy a successful retirement. Some of the joy I had in live, like the enjoyment of good food and the smell are spring flowers is gone. Things I used to take for granted.
Did you have the shots?
If he/she had the shots, they would be worse off than they are………or dead!