We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury

All those people who refused to take COVID seriously have a lot of blood on their hands.

Ooo interesting. The parallels with CFS are fascinating.

I wish people cared about dealing with covid still. Once corporate America got that sign off not to care there was no going back.

great.

remember when all the politicians and people who control things got covid?

What a totally normal and cool planet this is.

I'm still afraid of long-c. I insisted that we wore masks in airports and on flights when we took a trip last month. We live life in a normal fashion everywhere else (because we're vaxxed and boosted), but I wasn't willing to risk that environment.

As someone with long COVID, I can vouch the debilitating mental effects. I was teaching math to 4th through 8th grade students when I got it. I can remember standing in a classroom talking about a lesson and just having my mind go blank in mid sentence. I couldn't function. Not knowing what I was talking about or even where I was. Thankfully the students where very understanding and someone would finish my point I was making. I still suffer from it yet today, nearly 2 years later.

I have respiratory issues despite every CT scan showing nothing more than a couple of small pneumonia scars form long ago. I should be able to breathe just fine with no reduction of lung capacity. It stems from a lack coordination with my diaphragm - It runs backwards when I exert myself causing shortness of breath. Another sign of probable brain injury. And despite using a therapy tool to try and fix the issue, at best it just helps a little.

The upshot is I have pretty much stopped doing a lot of things I used to do because of the difficulties breathing and I spend a lot more time away from people due to an unreasonable fear of COVID.

It has caused me to retire earlier than I wanted to. And my life has greatly changed - and not for the better either.

Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.

Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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In living brains of those with long COVID, however, conventional MRI studies have shown no structural abnormalities in the brainstem.

Do these people not proof-read their own articles?

Diana from YT Physics Girl has long COVID. Her very loving husband takes care of her. We all wish them the best and any kind of recovery.

So what I'm hearing you say is we should ignore it and act like all the people who correctly point out how dumb we're being are assholes.