"Covid and brain tissue loss confirmed,” I read on the excellent blog Marginal Revolution. The link goes to this fascinating UK study, which scanned tens of thousands of brains before Covid, and then scanned many of the same ones again, after Covid hit.
I'm a 60 y/o, very healthy, slim man with no comorbidities and on no medications. I do take vitamin D, C, minerals, and a few other things which aren't relevant to covid. I had covid in July 2021 and felt headachy for a week, had a fever for 3 days, and lost nearly all my sense of smell. Here about 4 months later, my sense of smell and taste are mostly, but not 100% back. Yet I continue to notice progress. This weekend I noticed that my BF was wearing cologne, something I'd likely not have noticed a week or more ago. I've also started to notice smells walking around the city again. Initially very pessimistic about the loss of smell and taste (my cooking skills took a definite turn for the worse), I'm now optimistic that my smell will eventually return. Even nerves, notoriously hard to re-grow, will eventually come back.
It was possible to get much better results with much less sacrifice. Simply target restrictions, vaccines and treatments to the most vulnerable. This would get what was needed to those who needed it faster without watering that all down by forcing the much less vulnerable into the same line. The slow speed of response for the vulnerable due to trying to do everyone at once was the biggest killer Also allow experimentation with any treatment showing promise instead of limiting it to just the government approved ones. Simply do it with intelligence rather than panic, politics, and profits.
I'm a 60 y/o, very healthy, slim man with no comorbidities and on no medications. I do take vitamin D, C, minerals, and a few other things which aren't relevant to covid. I had covid in July 2021 and felt headachy for a week, had a fever for 3 days, and lost nearly all my sense of smell. Here about 4 months later, my sense of smell and taste are mostly, but not 100% back. Yet I continue to notice progress. This weekend I noticed that my BF was wearing cologne, something I'd likely not have noticed a week or more ago. I've also started to notice smells walking around the city again. Initially very pessimistic about the loss of smell and taste (my cooking skills took a definite turn for the worse), I'm now optimistic that my smell will eventually return. Even nerves, notoriously hard to re-grow, will eventually come back.
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
It was possible to get much better results with much less sacrifice. Simply target restrictions, vaccines and treatments to the most vulnerable. This would get what was needed to those who needed it faster without watering that all down by forcing the much less vulnerable into the same line. The slow speed of response for the vulnerable due to trying to do everyone at once was the biggest killer Also allow experimentation with any treatment showing promise instead of limiting it to just the government approved ones. Simply do it with intelligence rather than panic, politics, and profits.