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From the article:

"....two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine shed further light on the profound toll of COVID-19 on cognitive health." And in other studies cases "with mild to moderate COVID-19 showed significant prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that are commensurate with seven years of brain aging."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same, feels like I became ten times as dumb even though iq score didn't change much. It almost feels like language became harder to understand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I definitely find it harder to think of words when I'm talking to people and it seems like something that came about after COVID. Also, I have a much shorter fuse now and seem to get annoyed almost randomly.