What The Study Did: Researchers examined how common self-reported memory problems were in a large group of COVID-19 patients who weren't hospitalized and had relatively mild disease. Eight months after the positive SARS-CoV-2 test, the prevalence of memory problems in this group was higher than in the control group with a negative test or in the untested control population.
Authors: Arne Søraas, Ph.D., of the Oslo University Hospital in Norway, is the corresponding author.
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