COURTNEY SHUKIS was looking forward to lunch. She had just recovered from her covid-19 and was delighted to be reunited with her friends. Before she left her home in Plano, Texas, she checked her calendar to keep in mind when she would meet with the restaurant: “But instead of going there, we got in the car and went to a completely different place. I went to places,” she recalls. “I sat at her table for half an hour looking at her phone wondering where they were. My brain fog was really bad.”
It wasn’t a one-time thing. After contracting covid-19, Shukis experienced frequent episodes of amnesia. She forgot to make dinner, had trouble finding words to describe things, and was confused about school pick-up times. I felt like it wasn’t working for me.”
Shukis is one of millions of people around the world who have reported severe cognitive decline after covid-19 infection, and as a result the problem of brain fog has been in the spotlight. For many, this has been long awaited. a neuroscientist at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, kill brain fogI hope this interest can improve care for those going through it. “If there is anything positive to come out of the covid-19 pandemic, it is that the spotlight is now on brain fog and the scientific community is paying much more attention to it,” says Brennan. …
