You need a grippy sock vacation for thinking that a fucking cold needs this much worrying about.
Grow up and get a fucking life
https://www.jwatch.org/na58397/2025/02/11/more-evidence-ongoing-cognitive-deficits-after-covid-19
Objective brain injury and associated cognitive impairment were noted as long as 1 year after infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Some patients with acute COVID-19 develop encephalitis and associated cognitive deficits. In addition, even among people with mild acute COVID-19, residual brain damage has been reported: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) from before and after COVID-19 showed gray matter loss that was not seen in matched control patients who didn’t have COVID-19 (NEJM JW Gen Med Jun 1 2022 and Nature 2022; 604:697), and objective tests of cognition showed deficits that lasted at least 1 year after acute illness (NEJM JW Gen Med Mar 15 2024 and N Engl J Med 2024; 390:806).
In a multi-institutional U.K. study, researchers followed 351 people who had been hospitalized for acute COVID-19 (with or without neurological findings) and 3000 matched controls who didn’t have COVID-19. All patients were assessed with MRI, subjective reports of cognition, formal cognitive testing, and serum markers of injury to neurons and astrocytes. Compared with controls, post–COVID-19 patients were more likely to have global cognitive deficits (subjective and objective), reduced volumes in several brain regions, and multiple serum markers of neuronal and astrocyte injury. Risk for neurocognitive sequelae was greater in patients with more-severe initial infections, postacute psychiatric symptoms, and encephalopathy during acute COVID-19. Encouragingly, longitudinal follow-up in 106 patients revealed a trend toward recovery.
“Just a cold”