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Study shows a third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders :
One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said.
Researchers who conducted the analysis said it was not clear how the virus was linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression, but that these were the most common diagnoses among the 14 disorders they looked at.
[...] The new findings, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34 per cent had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months.
The Lancet article includes this disclaimer:
Big-data studies of this kind have intrinsic limitations, even when drawing on 81 million people, 236 379 of whom had COVID-19. In this pandemic context, not all individuals who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (particularly those with mild or asymptomatic illness) will be diagnosed, which could result in some contamination of the comparison groups.
The question: will severe, enduring, and less common conditions such as psychoses behave more like neurological disorders or common mental disorders? Among the COVID-19 cohort in this study, a first diagnosis of a psychotic disorder was substantially more common in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Lungs, hearts and brains..
Journal Reference:
Jonathan P Rogers. A longer look at COVID-19 and neuropsychiatric outcomes, The Lancet Psychiatry (DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00120-6)
Previously:
Experts Warn Coronavirus May Cause 'Wave' of Neurological Conditions Including Parkinson's Disease
2020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:49PM (46 children)
I'll take the bait, this time.
See, it's not about Trump.
Maybe, in shorthand, it's about MAGA.
A little less short, it's about America and Freedom and Justice... a dream fought and died for, for generations. We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:57PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:29PM (1 child)
Sigh. See post above yours for rebuttal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:48PM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:57PM (41 children)
The saddest part is, you believe this.
You actually believe a grifting wealthy (on paper) psychopath from New York City who literally shits in a golden toilet in a penthouse in Manhattan is a man of the people.
Un. Fucking. Believable. You deserve whatever suffering comes your way. Stupidity ought to be excruciatingly painful. That "cuck" thing your kind likes to throw around so much? Yeah, that's you and your boys.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:24PM (20 children)
It's all in the post.
Trashing Trump is sooooo 2020. How about Raving Robinette? List his wonderfulnesses.
Okay, ready? Go!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:46PM (1 child)
Must really grind you up inside that liberals don't fall all over themselves defending Biden. The dude is a Republican we didn't want, but still better than letting a literal fascist have 4 more years. Cry baby cry, nothing's changed except the temporary brakes on the US's fascist downfall. Go fuck yourself traitor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:18AM
Oh, we get it. If he were AOC, you'd be gushing about the glory of it all. But as it is, You can't wait for him to take that last stumble, and let Kommie Harris take over.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:57PM (8 children)
At this point, the fact that he's not Donald Motherfucking Trump is all he would need in his favor.
I find it very revealing that your kind insist that we have the same sort of blind, tribal loyalty to our leaders as you do. This is a fundamental disconnect in how "conservatives" (read: unthinking, reactionary cryptofascists like you) deal with the world versus how people like me do. Biden is a person, nothing more, and probably about as much of a figurehead as Dubya was last decade. We don't care WHO is doing the right things, we only care THAT the right things get done. We do not work like you. We are not stupid, tribal morons who value in-group loyalty over observable reality.
Trump is indeed a religious symbol, and you and your kind are idolators to perhaps the single most pathetic, ugly, weak false God there ever was.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:16AM
Yeah, Obama said that about us... each one of us is a typical white person.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:15AM (4 children)
I'm not looking for a figurehead, but a leader. I've never watched his primetime TV shows, and I've had minimal business with Trump companies. A friend to me is someone who would be fun to have lunch with. Trump would be tough at lunch. I think of him as a bright and cunning businessman who wants desperately to win but has a sense of ethics about it (but still wants to win). Basically, I'm glad he was and is on our side. I'm unimaginably relieved that he's not on your side.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @02:09AM (3 children)
And that is your weakness: you are looking for a leader, a single charismatic focus, when the world does not and cannot work this way. The real meat of politics is grinding drudgery. The "leader" is a shiny bobblehead distraction. It is a symbol, for the symbol-minded (that's you).
One reason I still voted Democrat despite a serious dislike of Biden bordering on hatred for his past record is because I knew Biden himself wasn't actually going to do much. It's the cabinet and administration that are, arguably, more important than the president, and while I'm none too thrilled with some of his picks there either, he's making it a point NOT to surround himself with crazies, incompetents, and incompetent crazies like Trump did.
You stupid goddamn tribals are so fixated on your father-figures, your objects of worship, that you can't even understand something as simple as this, and you insist that people who vote differently from you are just like you but oppositely-polarized. No, cupcake, we are dealing with *reality.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:27AM (2 children)
We're all alike, of course. My concern isn't about HbAiRdReInS- Administration figureheads, but the people behind the curtain. You're going to love the communist paradise they've scheduled, after they pass HR1 and ensure that no Patriotic American is ever elected again.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @05:07AM
If you actually think Trump was a patriot you are beyond the use of reason. Your mouth is moving and words are coming out, even complete coherent sentences, but they have no referent in reality. This means you are insane.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:59AM
If Biden and Harris were anything like communists, I would have voted for them. Too bad they're just Republicans that don't care about gays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @04:12AM (1 child)
Anyone but Trump?
Now there is a good example of critical/logical thought!!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @11:34PM
Ok fair enough, there are undoubtedly some choices worse than trump. You are technically correct, which in this case is the stupidest kind of correct.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @12:05AM (8 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:13AM (7 children)
I've tripped and skinned my shin, just like Joe did. But I didn't take preemptive offense that people would interpret it as a sign of my diminished capacity. Completely ignoring his bumbling and stumbling while trying to read from a prompter or notes, is much more troubling.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @12:26AM (6 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:39AM (5 children)
Don't forget, we're still waiting for that State Of The Union Address we were promised.
Maybe they made a mistake, and Nancy tore it up before reading, instead of after. Either that, or Joe's attack dog ate it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @01:57AM (4 children)
Not bad! I particularly like the dog eating the speech, nice dig!
Bet you're wishing Biden was fat or smelly or something right about now, huh.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:10AM (3 children)
No, I wish that of his handlers. And his son Hunter. And Barry O.
I wish Joe would go away quietly and with dignity and have a grand retirement. I was the primary caregiver when a family member slipped into dementia. It gets so amazingly sad toward the end, and that comes upon one so quickly, starting right about where Joe is now. [Insert "September Song" reference here.]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @02:48AM (2 children)
You know... I hadn't looked at it that way... I had no idea! I'm so sorry you're having to relive these fears after four years ! ! ;)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:35AM (1 child)
When Joe first promised to solve every major issue in his first 100-days, I was betting he wouldn't make it. Now, it seems he really isn't involved in much of it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @04:15AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:56AM (6 children)
Do you believe the country is better off now with the raspberry-faced man, than it was with the orange man and his gold toilet? Things like economy, education, security, international relations, border, race, debt, inflation, prospects, toilet paper availability are better?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:49AM (5 children)
Economy - virtually anything's better than an ill-timed tax-cut with no plan to deal with the revenue shortfall. Oh and an infrastructure plan is badly needed for the USA anyway. Education - You can't be fucking serious, pleassssse tell me how you're gonna defend Betsy Devos. Security - no new insurrections since Joe took over, definitely a win there. Our generals in the Pentagon are COVID-free as well, that's a plus this year. International Relations - Joe's big on gaffes but I'm having a hard time imaging he'll salute the general of an enemy dictator or send a half-tweet that puts the Pentagon on high alert for fifteen minutes. Border - most of your border problems are fictitious, and the wall was just a pork project. Biden's already gotten very public criticism over the kids in cages (why didnt you guys ever stand up to your candidate? HE WORKED FOR YOU!) so if he neglects that you could have a point with lefties standing shoulder to shoulder with you. Race - You can't be serious, even as VP Biden's track record was already better. Debt / Inflation - too early to tell, you could have a point here down the road. Trump faced this and never gave you a serious proposal about what he was going to do about it. Lotsa time for golf and campaigning, tho. Prospects - Yep, though the Potatohead Branding was pretty touch-and-go for a while there, we barely got through that.
Medical Care - What a rather telling omission from you. Yes I *definitely* feel a lot better about that.
Oh and the Inauguration was better, too. ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:16AM (3 children)
There's a whole world of news services out there to see. As Tex Ritter sings in current Disney TV commercials: There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, waiting at the end of every day. Of course they're advertising going to Florida, not California. The point is that there are known knowns, and unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns, and you're better off looking around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:53AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:32AM (1 child)
Convolution is a specialty. It takes the ability to wander for a half hour and have the confidence that the reader trusts you to get back to where you... it's like trying to write a story, and have no idea where you're going, and hoping the reader thinks you do. Kind of like when you decide that you're supposed to talk about Trump and you really want to work in the topic of Biden sniffing hair, but then you get to comparing hair, and realize there's no clear winner between Trump and Biden. Except that Trump does an excellent job with hair spray. Trust me.
I'll tell you the truth of this whole matter, when the powers that be finish moderating this thread, you're all going to be +4 Insightful, and I'm going to be all -1 Troll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @06:11AM
A honest admission of a troll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:19AM
Ah hah! Medical Care! What about global warming and saving the Texas Prairie Chickens? Huh?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 09 2021, @02:05AM (3 children)
So does 40% of the US voting population. What made that possible? It sounds like a "My Fair Lady" or "Trading Places" bet run by psychologists.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @04:38AM (2 children)
What made it possible is people are goddamn stupid, that's what. It's on a bell curve, but the curve is massively right-skewed in more than one sense of the term and it's easy to manipulate stupid people. Just tell them everything wrong in their lives is someone else's fault and "if you elect me I'll make all the nig^W dar^W col^W Negr^W THOSE PEOPLE, dammit, pay, and put you back on top where you belong!"
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 09 2021, @07:21PM (1 child)
Then why did it take so long for someone to try this? Seems like it should have happened a long time ago if this is the case. Plus, the entire Republican party backed him every step of the way -- how difficult could this have been?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @11:39PM
Because it took a decades-long campaign of propaganda to radicalize Republicans far enough along with the political maneuvering through gerrymandering and voter suppression to make the move possible.
I disagree with Azuma that it was only because people are stupid, and it was more about the blatant propaganda and lies through Fox News and rightwing pundits. Also quite a few of them chose power of ethics because they are still in the cold war mindset. Not stupid, just choosing evil because they thought it was a secret plan for the good of the country.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:42AM (8 children)
No, the saddest part is that I was quoting The Declaration Of Independence, and one of you called me a traitor for it.
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:32PM
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:56AM (6 children)
^ What the AC said. If you believe someone quoting any given text means they believe in it or act in ways in accordance with it, you're too dumb to live. This is one of the oldest tropes in the book. "Even the Devil can cite Scripture for his own purposes," ever hear that one?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @04:42PM (5 children)
Don't you hate it when you come up with the perfect snappy reply on the way home from the party?
It's even worse when you think you have it, two days later. And then you call up the party guests, but they don't remember you being there.
Hogamous, Higamous...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @02:44AM (4 children)
I didn't even see that until just before posting the reply. Luckily SN notifies you when you get replies, so when someone replies to a topic of mine weeks later (yes this has happened) I can still see it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:22AM (3 children)
Yes, how fortunate for you.
The party's over. "Ditto" was hardly worth the phone call.
Defensive much?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:33AM (2 children)
Er, no? I try and give people who reply to my posts the courtesy of a reply back, is all. Seems that was wasted on you, AC :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:43AM (1 child)
On the other hand, sometimes it really is better to think about it for two days before replying.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:52AM
Indeed. You should try it. And maybe not limit yourself to two days...!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:25AM
I wonder who's waiting for me to drop the other shoe. Feel free to go ahead and hit 'em with the punchline.