Researchers in Britain have discovered that tissue damage in the brain can still occur even in coronavirus infections that have mild symptoms.
Researchers have discovered that during the first months of coronavirus infection, even COVID-19 cases with mild symptoms have been found to be associated with some tissue damage in the brain. And regions of the brain associated with the sense of smell have been found to have accelerated losses.
Gwenaëlle Douaud, the lead author on the paper and an associate professor at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford said, “It is brain damage, but it is possible that it is reversible.” She said,"it is still relatively scary because it was in mildly infected people,” NBC reported.
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