Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 [pdf]

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2821%2900324-2

by alokrai • 5 years ago

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kazinator3• 5 years ago

There is going to be an obvious bias here because a good fraction of those people will be anti-maskers, anti-handwashers, anti-vaxxers, ... basically mentally defective to begin with.

I don't see how you can account for this. It would be unethical to give a random sample of people Covid-19, and measure the cognitive abilities before and after.

kian2• 5 years ago

People who disagree with you must be borderline mentally defective? This is unnecessary and against the HN guidelines. If you replaced those three categories with ones that describe any 'protected class' of people, I think you would instantly see why this is so.

neohaven3• 5 years ago

Frankly, at the time where the questionnaires were filled by the study participants, there were no vaccines available as far as I can tell.

I don't know where that high-horse you're on comes from, but it's quite undignified.

kazinator3• 5 years ago

Social distancing, masks, hand washing and related practices were available. While I'm not saying that everyone who ever contracted COVID-19 was careless (and how could we even begin to think such a thing front line workers?), there is going to be a correlation.

A random sample of people from the "got COVID" category is going to be dumber than the population.

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 [pdf]

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