COVID-19 Could Increase Dementia, Other Brain Disorders for Decades to Come
On 02/10/21 at 11:00 AM EST
COVID-19 could bring an increase in brain disorders including dementia, psychosis, chronic fatigue and Alzheimer s.
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Gabriel de Erausquin first began to worry about the long-term impact of COVID on the brain when he read early reports out of Wuhan, China last January that survivors had lost two of their give senses smell and taste. Worry turned to alarm when one of his medical assistants, a young mother who had come down with COVID-19 and had to be quarantined for a month, told de Erausquin, a neuroscientist, that she couldn t care less about being separated from her children.