Long covid is a very real concern, but cognitive deficits due to covid, whether mild or severe, is a much bigger concern and is only just beginning to be defined.
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19
“The scale of the observed deficit was not insubstantial; the 0.47 SD global composite score reduction for the hospitalized with ventilator sub-group was greater than the average 10-year decline in global performance between the ages of 20 to 70 within this dataset. It was larger than the mean deficit of 480 people who indicated they had previously suffered a stroke (−0.24SDs) and the 998 who reported learning disabilities (−0.38SDs). For comparison, in a classic intelligence test, 0.47 SDs equates to a 7-point difference in IQ.”
Given that the virulence of Delta has made covid endemic what does this mean for the future?
If you like Steely Dan you may just get Weather Reports output from the early eighties—Procession, Domino Theory and Sportin’ Life. Omar Hakim on drums and Victor Bailey on bass. Confians isn’t typical of their output but it is so heartfelt. I am told it is sung in a Brazilian creole, but I have not idea what it is about. But then again, I do.
Shpongle consistently pushed the envelope of electronic music, always creative, always original. For example...