• @CitizenKong
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    14 months ago

    It also exacerbates mental decline in elderly patients. You can also lose 3-9 IQ points with each infection. It stays in the brain for long after the initial infection and disrupts the brain-blood-barrier. It’s honestly (still) pretty scary: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189