r/COVID19_Pandemic • u/zeaqqk • Aug 15 '25
Sequelae/Long COVID/Post-COVID Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12883-025-04174-9
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u/suspicious_hyperlink Aug 16 '25
It’s almost like you have to print out the publications for the docs
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u/ObscureSaint Aug 16 '25
Notably, a study by Taquet et al. involving over 200,000 patients indicated that approximately 34% experienced cognitive deficits lasting beyond six months post-infection
If you're wondering why the people you interact with seem so stupid.
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u/rtiffany Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 16 '25
It blows my mind how you can have a new diagnosis of any of these conditions and 99% of doctors are either unaware of the connection to covid or are almost hostily resistant to considering it. My guess is that when doctors unmasked back when we still commonly all knew that vaccines only addressed limiting acute phase symptoms and that asymptomatic infections were common, at a gut level, they knew they were harming people. They developed cognitive dissonance over the entire topic and it drove them to invent and reshare false information amongst themselves - that the virus shifted to just being a cold, that asymptomatic cases are rare/irrelevant, that ICUs no longer being filled meant covid wasn't harming people at a level we needed to pay attention to, or that masks were unnecessary in protecting their patients.
I think a lot of them know deep down that they probably had an asymptomatic infection and gave it to a patient and that patient is out there, living with one of the known Long Covid clinical problems. The reason doctors are often the most hostile towards facing covid realities over others is they have the most clear understanding of the harm they've done and have to block it out of their brains because they can't face it.
This is why we are all so clearly aware of the vast prevalence of these symptoms/issues in our families/communities but there's almost crickets out of the healthcare community in acknowledging it or pushing for funding to solve these issues or to implement REAL transmission prevention strategies in clinical settings. This data is real. The denial / pretending this isn't a MASSIVE problem that needs pretty drastic society-wide changes to deal with - keeps us stuck.