“Bumped into neighbor while walking 🐶. I've seen her walking more recently & we got talking.

She's on disability from work b/c of memory issues. She can't drive or do household tasks & is forgetting things she should know. Her writing has even changed.

She's 54. The kicker?”

“There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems…than at any time in the last 15 years…

…Richard Deitz, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, analyzed the data and attributed much of the increase to Long Covid

‘These numbers don’t do this — they don’t just start suddenly increasing sharply like this,’ he said.”

“If anyone tells you that we are in a better place now than in the beginning of the pandemic, it’s a lie. People are dying more in the chronic phase of Covid than in the acute stage, and those who survive, are left with chronic illnesses that may become permanent.

We must remain resilient.”

“Experts are increasingly noticing people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experiencing difficulties remembering things. They compare it to the memory function more regularly seen in 70-year-olds.

Psychologists note younger people complaining of trouble remembering things, needing to write everything down, and missing important events because they forgot about them.”

Not mentioned: COVID COVID COVID. IT. IS. COVID.