Thread by @DrEricDing

First study focused on long-term neurological symptoms in people not sick enough from #COVID19 to need hospitalization: found many visiting neuro clinic had >=4 neurological issues like brain fog, headaches, tingling, muscle pain & dizziness. Avg age 43.🧵 nytimes.com/2021/03/23/hea…

2) “We are seeing people who are really highly, highly functional individuals, used to multitasking all the time and being on top of their game, but, all of a sudden, it’s really a struggle for them,” said Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, chief of neuro-ID and global neurology. #LongCovid

3) “In the study, many experienced symptoms that fluctuated or persisted for months. Most improved over time, but there was wide variation. “Some people after 2 months are 95 percent recovered, while some people after 9 months are only 10 percent recovered,” said Dr. Koralnik.

4) “Five months after contracting the virus, patients estimated, they felt on average only 64 percent recovered.”

#LongCovid

5) “SARS‐CoV‐2+ patients performed worse in attention and working memory cognitive tasks compared to a demographic‐matched US population (T‐score 41.5 [37, 48.25] and 43 [37.5, 48.75], respectively; both p<0.01).”

6) “Along with neurological symptoms, 85 percent of the patients were experiencing fatigue, and nearly half had shortness of breath. Some also had chest pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, variable heart rate or blood pressure. Nearly half were experiencing depression or anxiety.”

7) That said, the above study was among patients visiting a neuro clinic, but what stood out was the >=4 symptoms.

And this #LongCovid issue has been documented many times before, even in non-neuro clinic patients. Here is a much larger study:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1326038189971288064

8) Another cognitive study found that those who were hospitalized for #COVID19 had massive cognitive declines —how massive? Read below:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1326294302155214866