Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors

April 14, 2025

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(Wall Street Journal) – Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties

Our exchange raises a troubling question: Are long-Covid patients’ cognitive symptoms getting better or regressing? And are those patients being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, more at risk for developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease later?

I posed these questions to the doctors and scientists who see and study these patients. Most agree that long-Covid patients experience cognitive issues and other neurological symptoms likely fueled by brain inflammation. (Read More)