Researchers Find New Evidence That Headaches, Memory Issues, and Fatigue May Not Be Caused by Long-Term COVID-19 As Suspected Up Until Now, But Rather By Inflammation Throughout The Body.
According to recent research, the symptoms of headaches, memory loss, and exhaustion that are often persistent after a Covid-19 infection may be caused by inflammation elsewhere in the body rather than an infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the brain.
Early in the epidemic, scientists hypothesized that the neurological symptoms might be caused by a direct infection of the brain. Numerous research have also suggested that the Covid virus may have an impact on brain symptoms. However, a study conducted by scientists at Germany’s Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin has recently generated data in favor of the novel notion.
“We also began with that as our hypothesis. However, as of yet, there is no convincing proof that the coronavirus can survive in the brain, much less spread, according to Dr. Helena Radbruch, who leads the working group on chronic neuroinflammation at the Department of Neuropathology at Charite.
For example, to do that, we would have required to discover proof of intact virus particles in the brain. Rather, the signs that the coronavirus may infect the brain originate from indirect testing techniques, making them inconclusive, according to Radbruch.
A second theory states that the neurological symptoms could instead be a byproduct of the body’s robust immune defense mechanism against the virus.
