The Haunting Brain Science of Long COVID:
Matt (24 years old): “I feel like I’m underwater. When you talk to me, I can hear you, but my doesn’t understand words. I can’t comprehend what you’re saying. I have no intellectual capacity to digest data.”
In this piece I wrote for STAT, I use science to raise awareness of a growing public health nightmare hiding in plain sight - Neuro-Long COVID. I unpack 20 relevant medical articles.
Check it out & stay safe.
@WesElyMD great article- horrifically frightening. Microglia aren’t the “white matter” but I will be searching out those articles as we study the effects of infection in the CNS- and especially the innate immune response as I relates to seizures.
@kswilcox the main component of white matter that I was referring to in this article are axons, but it is also the case that glial cells are present in both gray and white matter.
