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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: 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.