'I Feel Like I Have Dementia': Brain Fog Plagues Virus Survivors

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=56613"><span class="small">Pam Belluck, The New York Times</span></a>

Monday, 12 October 2020 12:50

Belluck writes: "After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier."

Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job. (photo: Hiroko Masuike/NYT)

'I Feel Like I Have Dementia': Brain Fog Plagues Virus Survivors

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times

12 October 20

The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.

fter contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.

Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her Covid-19 symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.

Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.

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