{"id":1508,"date":"2021-08-07T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:27:58","slug":"recovered-covid-patients-suffering-significant-cognitive-deficits-according-to-large-scale-uk-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Recovered COVID Patients Suffering &#8216;Significant Cognitive Deficits&#8217; According To Large-Scale UK Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Over 190 million people have officially contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. Of that, the vast majority have recovered &#8211; while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/373\/bmj.n1626\">up to one-third<\/a>\u00a0reportedly suffer from lingering symptoms of varying severity, known as &#8216;long covid.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Common complaints include a&nbsp;<strong>lack of smell and taste<\/strong>, as well as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/covidlonghaulers\/search?q=fog&amp;restrict_sr=on&amp;include_over_18=on&amp;sort=relevance&amp;t=all\">brain fog<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; in which sufferers often complain of ongoing confusion, lack of focus, and migraines &#8211; well after they&#8217;ve &#8216;recovered&#8217; from the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Last week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/alzheimer-s-covid-coronavirus-neurological-symptoms-b1893283.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;<strong>Covid-19 may accelerate the onset of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/strong>&nbsp;in patients suffering from neurological symptoms, while another study noted in the report found that coronavirus patients &#8220;are more susceptible to long-term memory and thinking problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Last September, a study offered the first clear evidence that\u00a0<strong>Covid-19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.06.25.169946v2\">&#8216;hijacks&#8217; brain cells<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to make copies of itself &#8211; starving nearby cells of oxygen. The same researchers found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/brain\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/brain\/awaa240\/5868408\">last July<\/a>\u00a0that some Covid-19 patients have developed serious neurological complications, including nerve damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1508&amp;action=edit\">http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1508&amp;action=edit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 190 million people have officially contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. Of that, the vast majority have recovered &#8211; while\u00a0up to one-third\u00a0reportedly suffer from lingering symptoms of varying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,289,309,375,561,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-fog","category-long-haul-disease","category-memory","category-news-of-the-day","category-symptoms-covid-19","category-taste-smell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}