Long Covid memory and concentration problems are ‘concerning’, researchers say

Seven in 10 long Covid patients experience concentration and memory problems several months after the initial onset of their disease, with many performing worse than their peers on cognitive tests, according to a new study. The research from the University of Cambridge was published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience and is among the first results of an online study “called” ‘Covid and Cognition’ that monitored the symptoms of 181 long Covid patients over 18 months. The majority suffered Covid-19 at least six months before the study began. Very few people had been ill enough with Covid-19 to be hospitalised. A