Doctors Struggle To Learn If, And How, COVID Affects The Brain | Talking Points Memo

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still much we don’t know about the disease.

But doctors around the world are racing to examine worrying reports of COVID-19 affecting the brain. Individual reports have shown strokes, brain swelling, and general brain damage occurring in patients with the disease, raising a serious question: Are the symptoms related to the viral infection? And, if so, how?


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1309428

I think we already have empirical proof that it makes right-wingers stupid regardless of whether they’ve actually contracted the disease.

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It’s irrelevant, we already have dozens of millions of brain damaged Trumptards running around and armed. A few more morons would not make a difference.

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Seems like we are all in sync…

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Science should also study what happens to the brain after listening to rage radio every day

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A very good article, Mr. Kovensky.

Much like all your other articles.

 

@josh_kovensky

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Actually this is very ominous. There’s been evidence for weeks that the typical severe case is only one way this disease can damage you badly. Just last night there was a woman on Twitter saying nine doctors so far have told her she’s lost 90 percent of the vision in one eye because of it. It seems to have a nearly free-floating ability to damage anything it feels like. And yet we have this huge segment of the society poo-pooing it and clamoring to go anywhere and do anything without the slightest inconvenience because that’s our implicit birthright somehow.

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This is not complicated people. It says right there, on my bottle, Clorox kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses. A little hydroxychloroquine, a few zinc tablets with a Clorox chaser and I am ready to attend another freedom from masks and social distancing rally. Safe protected and totally immune from a hoax that will be over at after the first week in Nov.

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Everything about covid-19 is ominous

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Yeah, it was always ominous, I seem to recall refrigerator trucks as temporary morgues, and then whoa it turns out to be more ominous and you’re a bit offended because really it was already ominous enough and then some. I’ve had atrocious insomnia and more than a few white nights since this damn thing started.

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And this research will take years…if it is ever completed. COVID-19 is a nasty virus for sure and all it’s effects have not been identified let alone investigated and understood.

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Oh that’s just fucking wonderful.

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ThE libTard brAin iS flAccid and moStly petrifiEd poop, so Covid won’t harm them. Republican BraiN is Strong and Resistant to everYthing science proves it

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We’re in this for the long, long haul, folks. Buckle up.

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I imagine it does effect the brain. as we learn more about this virus we learn it’s worse than we thought. Initially lungs were thought to be the victims then cytokine storm came up and ateritis and small vessel vasculitis ( covid toe ). If this virus causes clotting in small vessels as many think any down stream organ is subject to infarction. Stroke is now known to be on COVID’s problem list. “give em one disease” is a medical platitude but it works here. Lots of different presentations of COVID 19 but they all boil down to inflammation and clotting within small vessels.

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Well that’s interesting. I had posted a reply to Eustace and it has mysteriously disappeared with no trace or notification as to why.

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I think this is key. IANAdoctor. But, inflammation is inflammation, and this virus can go into any organ system and cause mild, prolonged, or permanent damage and death. I feel like the lung and its pneumonitis is the virus factory, but from there, the virus, along with the inflammation it causes, can easily go to the cardiovascular system, CNS, gut, kidneys, skin (like the rashes in Kawasaki disease that the kids are getting) – anywhere, in other words.

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So, Trump has had covid.

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Hang on, I know Easter is moveable, bur November …!

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