datum (n=1)

We've been beating this drum for years. This CBC piece is doing the rounds again for good reason: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-covid-brain-1.7171918

#COVIDIsNotOver #COVID19 #COVID #brainFog #BrainHealth

COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest | CBC Radio

Researchers are trying to understand the profound effects of COVID-19 on the brain, looking at how it disrupts the blood-brain barrier, how it affects brain volume, and showing that even a mild case of COVID can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.

CBC
Apr 10 at 3:27pmWeb
Show threadJohn Francis 🇨đŸ‡ĻđŸĻĢ🍁đŸ’ĒâŦ†ī¸2d ago
@datum are we sure it isn't neofascist and manosphere propaganda that's been causing the drop in IQ? It really jumped up around the same time as COVID. Maybe a statistician can tease apart the correlations.
Show threaddatum (n=1)2d ago
@johnefrancis I mean, that specific possibility is unlikely to account for this, since the gender gap in all the post-acute-COVID studies I've seen has not had men doing much worse than women (in fact statistically women had moderately worse odds of neuro sequelae than men, though about the same severity if impacted, in at least one study.
Show threaddragonfrog2d ago

@datum I always have some side-eye for tests like this - published in *2024* and purporting to have a large sample size of people who've never had covid.

I see from the paper the actual tests were conducted between 2020 and 2022, so OK I guess I can see it.

Show threadPlutonicXT2d ago
@datum switch the F to a J, for a more realistic cause of those symptoms, and many more.
Show threaddatum (n=1)2d ago
@PlutonicXT Hello and welcome to the Fediverse! Can you please provide a citation for your claim?
Show threadAlexander 😷1d ago
@datum Dystopian thought of the day: once the cognitive damage becomes impossible to ignore, are AI bros and politicians/lobbyists going to sell cognitive surrender as a feature, rather than the poison it is?
Show threaddatum (n=1)1d ago
@alxndr Oh absolutely! "Relax and let us do the (restaurant picking, book reading, birthday card writing, whatever) for you" is absolutely absolutely a near term marketing pitch