COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ inspires search for causes and treatments

COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ inspires search for causes and treatments

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/covid-19-brain-fog-inspires-search-causes-and-treatments

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Since she fell ill with COVID-19 around Thanksgiving, Pamela Furr has been waiting for her old self to return. A radio news anchor in Tennessee for more than 10 years, she now sometimes finds herself stuck midsentence grasping for simple words; she is prone to forget events and conversations if she doesn’t write them down. “I’m not the same person that I was before COVID,” she says. “I kind of miss me.”