55% of patients with coronavirus still have neurological problems three months later – HotAir

And many “long-haulers”, such as COVID-19 patients who have had symptoms for months after the first infection, report neurological problems such as dizziness and concentration problems (like concussion), such as headaches, extreme fatigue, mood changes , stroke and loss of taste and / or smoke.

Indeed, the CDC recently warned that it will take longer to recover from COVID-19 than the 10- to 14-day quarantine window that has been touted by the entire pandemic. In fact, one in five young adults under the age of 34 did not return to normal health until three weeks after testing positive. And 35% of American adults surveyed generally did not return to their normal state of health when interviewed two to three weeks after testing.

Now a study of 60 COVID-19 patients published this week in Lancet finds that 55% of them still show such neurological symptoms during follow-up visits three months later. And when doctors compared brain scans of these 60 COVID patients with those of a control group who were not infected, they found that the brains of the COVID patients showed structural changes that correlated with memory loss and smoking loss.