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[misko27]

NY Times: Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State. Largest study in the US analyzing neurological symptoms of COVID to date.

This has happened to two people I know who had COVID. One was delusional to the point that he imagined he was on a diving board over a lake of fire. He dived off his hospital bed face-first and broke his neck. He survived, but he spent a hell of a lot longer in the hospital as a result (and also was physically restrained). Another was a friend of my mothers, a woman who was young enough to not be in any age-related risk factors, very good health, lifetime runner, etc; who has been dealing with fits of fogginess and confusion ever since. It'll seem to get better for a while, it'll seem like she can live her old lifestyle, and then she'll be unable to drive without forgetting where she's going (this woman is a PhD, mind).

[Eric Blank]

I was unaware of this aspect of the disease until now. I don't want to think about it anymore, but it sounds as if contracting the disease would be the most efficient means of forgetting about it. And that scares me.

[Dostoevsky]

There have been various anecdotes and some 'small N' studies suggesting some sort of neurological effects, but this is definitely the largest I've heard of. The one-third figure is also larger than the prior studies I've seen. Very concerning indeed.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Unfortunately, there's significant case evidence, even if we don't know precisely why it happens (my money remains on blood clot-induced general organ damage). Mental problems seem ubiquitous with severe cases, and lung damage has been reported even in very mild cases.

[delphonso]

My cousin couldn't sleep - when he'd nod off, his breathing would slow and then he'd wake up feeling on the brink of passing out. That was one guy, but if that happens to a lot of people, I could see fogginess from lack of sleep and low oxygen levels sticking around for a while.

[martinuzz]

We should be preparing for a new economy where millions of people cannot work because of after-Covid disability.

[ChairmanPoo]

We could send them all to the meat factories

[martinuzz]

That's gonna be hard if they suffer from dizzyness and loss of coordination.  Better to send the meat factories to them

[ChairmanPoo]

That's gonna be hard if they suffer from dizzyness and loss of coordination.  Better to send the meat factories to them

I dont see it as a big deal. They can always be brought in on stretchers.

[Starver]

From what I hear (unless this was a different incident altogether) the spreadsheet was not in Excel but in some older file format that can "only" handle about 65k rows of data. Apparently no one realized this until recently, which means that anything beyond the first 65k entries or so basically didn't get saved.

ETA: source

I'm a big fan of Excel (or, rather .XLS(notX) from Libre/OpenOffice) for far more things than I should be using it for... But you'd have thought they'd have been using an actual databasing application in this case. Maybe SAS, which I know is entirely suitable for the purpose, though there are other ones that can be clinically(/financially/etc) certifiable for such critical uses.

On top of that, it is triviality itself to sanity-check with a 'compilation totals' record that immediately alert you to discrepancies. Sloppy, very sloppy.

[King Zultan]

We could send them all to the meat factories

Soylent green is people!

[Rockeater]

We could send them all to the meat factories

Soylent green is people!

And low quality in that.

[wierd]

The problem is that the ruling elite will get a taste for not just figuratively eating the poor, but literally as well.

Once the glut of supply runs out, they will complain mightily about the increasing costs of Soylent Worker.

[JoshuaFH]

On the upside, it resolves the issue of the unemployed and homeless, they're on the dollar menu!

Just need to start up my new chain restaurant: Mcpeople's!

[ChairmanPoo]

Oh FFS stop putting words in my mouth, they are NOT workers, they are invalids!

IMO It is every citizen's final duty to go into the factories, and become one with all the people