COVID cognitive decline more widespread than thought, say researchers at Australia's first long-COVID clinic

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Hidden behind St Vincent's hospital in Sydney there's an unassuming grey building where some extraordinary research is happening.

 

It's here that the detailed medical data of 128 of Australia's COVID veterans — who caught the original Alpha strain in early 2020 — is being picked apart and exhaustively analysed.

 

The hope is that by tracking this cohort over years, Australia might contribute to the international effort to understand this fiendish virus and its short and long-term effects.

 

And the team has found something startling.

 

Around one quarter of the ADAPT study's participants were experiencing noticeable cognitive decline a year after getting COVID.

 

And, some sort of cognitive decline was recorded in almost all of the participants, regardless of the severity of the initial infection.

 

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-25/long-covid-clinic-st-vincents-cognitive-decline/101178450