MedPage Today August 6, 2024
— Some early pandemic patients dropped IQ points and did not return to their jobs
Up to 3 years after being hospitalized with acute SARS-CoV-2 during the first months of the pandemic, some patients still had mild to severe cognitive and psychiatric outcomes, data from the COVID Fog (C-Fog) study showed.
At the 2- to 3-year point, a group of early COVID survivors scored significantly lower than expected across all cognitive domains, showing an average deficit equivalent to 10 IQ points (average score 0.71 standard deviations below the mean, P<0.0001), reported Maxime Taquet, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, and co-authors in Lancet Psychiatry.
One in nine had objective signs of severe cognitive deficits that equated to a...
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