So said infective diseases specialist and paediatrician, Professor Robert Booy in a recent Healthed ‘Going Viral’ podcast. He referred to research published in the journal Nature that showed that COVID infection could actually shrink the brain with a study finding that people with ongoing symptoms had a 1% loss of brain volume which affected neurological functions such as memory, mood and smell.
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