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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Covid pandemic ‘had lasting impact’ on brain health of people aged 50 or over

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The acceleration in cognitive decline was exacerbated by a number of factors including an increase in loneliness and depression, the researchers said. Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Alamy

The pandemic has caused sustained harm to the brain health of people aged 50 or over, rapidly speeding up cognitive decline regardless of whether or not they caught Covid, researchers have discovered.

Almost 780 million people were killed or made ill by the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization. Health experts are now learning more about the indirect effects of the biggest public health crisis in a century.

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