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- health@lemmy.world
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- health@lemmy.world
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.
I remember hearing at the beginning of the year that the current strains were more dangerous and more infectious than the original, we just didn’t hear anything about it because, surprise, the vaccines work.
Vaccines work, but they don’t prevent long covid. The National academy of science and medicine report found that they reduced the prevalence of Long COVID from 12% to 10% of individuals with a positive test at 6 months.
Which is good, but far from revolutionary. In fact, the same report found that the majority of people with long COVID have been vaccinated (which makes sense, since most people have been vaccinated).
I saw another study which said vaccines reduced long covid by up to 50% depending on which strain it was.
The NASEM report took all the studies done on the subject and provided a meta analysis for the conclusions. Which is based on data for over 100’000 patients.