“If Covid is quietly accelerating cognitive aging… in working-age adults, the consequences will ripple through workplaces & health systems for years.”
“The incidence & prevalence of Alzheimer’s is going to just escalate,” he says. “It’s a huge public-health problem.” #LongCovid
“Almost 5 years later, #LongCovid has had one of the fastest rises in diagnoses and become one of the most economically disruptive chronic conditions in modern medicine… Another analysis… put the annual economic toll of LC at $1 trillion” — @jwgale bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@jwgale “That scale in turn raises a troubling question: whether Covid is not only leaving millions chronically unwell but also accelerating the slow neurological processes that end in dementia—a pattern that has long been observed after some viral infections.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@jwgale “To study possible hidden effects.. they deliberately infected healthy young adults.. and none reported lasting problems, but after a year they performed slightly worse.. before being infected. The difference was roughly comparable to 6 IQ points” @jwgale bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@jwgale “In a study published this January.. Those who developed persistent neurological symptoms showed a clear rise in phosphorylated tau, a protein commonly used as an early warning sign of brain degeneration” — @jwgale #LongCovid bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@jwgale “The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems…declines in functional capacity…medical implications are troubling enough, the economic ones are beginning to register too” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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