COVID-19 may have an impact on people’s cognitive and Memory abilities that lasts a year or more after infection. A new study by Imperial College London researchers reveals small deficits in the performance of cognitive and memory tasks in people who had recovered from COVID-19 compared with those who had not had COVID-19. This includes people who had long duration symptoms (i.e., Long COVID) that had eventually resolved. The study also shows that the cognitive deficits were larger for people who were hospitalised, who had ongoing long duration symptoms, or who were infected with earlier variants of the virus. The

COVID-19’s Lasting Impact on Cognition and Memory as seen on The Hippocratic Post.