Coronavirus Watch: Can even mild COVID cause brain changes?
A new study provides the most conclusive evidence yet that COVID-19 can damage the brain, even in people who weren't severely ill.
Analysis of brain images of people ages 51 to 81 showed that those infected with COVID-19 had a greater reduction in their brain volumes overall and performed worse on cognitive tests than those who had not been infected.
The 15 participants who were sick enough with COVID-19 to require hospitalization showed the most brain changes, but even those who had much milder disease showed differences, the study found.
Read more from Reporter Karen Weintraub here.
It's Monday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the Paste BN Network. Here's more news to know to start your week:
- China is reporting the most new symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the country in about two years, with 214 domestically transmitted cases reported Sunday, according to Reuters.
- The official global COVID-19 death toll surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
- The Biden administration announced Monday it will be awarding $2.2 billion in COVID-19 relief funding to struggling transit agencies in 18 states, in an attempt to help the departments win back riders lost during the pandemic.
See our COVID-19 resource guide here. See total reported cases and deaths here. On vaccinations: About 76% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 65% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
– Cady Stanton, Paste BN digital editor fellow, @cady_stanton