>Researchers see no evidence of brain damage in people hospitalized with severe coronavirus infection, Maastricht University reported. The study was prompted by the neurological problems doctors noticed in patients in intensive care during the first wave of the coronavirus.

>However, people who experienced this "show no signs of brain damage from the disease after the fact," the university explained. The study looked at two groups of coronavirus patients: 104 people who were in the usual care unit and 101 people who had been admitted to the intensive care unit. Nine months after discharge from the hospital, the researchers used scans and tests to examine possible brain damage and its consequences, such as memory problems. They also asked about symptoms such as fatigue.

>"We expected that people in the intensive care group, who were, after all, the most severely ill, would also have the greatest brain damage and more complaints," explained Caroline van Heugten, professor of clinical neuropsychology in Maastricht. But that wasn't the case. "The MRI scans of the brain were largely similar, with the exception that we saw more microbleeds in the MRI scans of the intensive care patients. Patients with such microbleeds did not have more disorders or symptoms.”

>There were also no differences in thinking functions or psychological well-being between the two groups. However, more than half of the patients studied suffered from complaints such as fatigue, forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating. Such complaints are also known as Long COVID or Post-COVID Conditions (PCC). They also occur in people who have not been hospitalized after an infection with the coronavirus, Van Heugten said. The cause of such complaints is not yet clear.

t. https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/22/research-evidence-brain-damage-severe-coronavirus-infection

It's worth noting that Long COVID symptoms happen in the same frequency in both people who have had COVID and those who have never been infected (confirmed by blood tests). It's looking more and more like the reaction to COVID caused far more damage than COVID itself would have been able to had it been allowed to infect the population uncontested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_neurologic_disorder

It should have been obvious the covid doomers were full of hooey 3 years ago

>>15385434 (OP)

yeah no shit, "Long covid" has never existed. Maybe these loons became self aware and are classifying their leftist brain rot as neurological damage

Unfortunately, policy makers, politicians, pharma grifters, the media, and attention seekers all have reasons to claim it does exist, so they're going to try to push it as much as possible.

/x/-tier thought: there was a bioweapon escape prior to covid that's quiet and slow, and covid was an attempt at a live attenuated vaccine against it. Long covid may be from that source.



Or it's the most anxious adhering most stringently to the popular total lockdown measures which when taken to their extremes are even more harmful to health than is thought.

Or its just Fibromyalgia with a newer, trendier name.

>>15385434 (OP)

>No evidence that severe COVID causes brain damage

Coming from "scientists" that said,

"Wear your mask!

Don't wear your mask!

Only wear N95 masks!

Don't wear N95 masks!

Wear two masks!

Wear three masks! 

Masks are dangerous!

Wear only a mask in public!

Wear a N95 mask in public but a cloth one in your house!

Masks are racist and cause global warming!

Masks mean you care!"



Leave any official government statements out?

Same scientists?

Correct.
