covid and neuropsyche issues

Thought this study was interesting. Shows that 60% of people who survive corona end up w/ neuropsyche issues even after the other symptoms are gone. Authors believe its due to lingering inflammation....

Although the idea seems to get a lot of pushback on this board for some reason, this lends credence to the post-infectious PANDAS/inflammation theory for why people have these lingering neuropsyche issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/08/03/world/europe/03reuters-health-coronavirus-disorders.html

This does not surprise me in the slightest as a concept, although the prevalence is a bit surprising. Cytokine storms and post-viral syndromes are the hallmarks of Lyme disability for me and always have been. A cold that gives my kid the sniffles for one day can render me legitimately bedridden for a season. I don't identify with the psych issues specifically, but I get other symptoms of neurological inflammation. My healthy sister and niece experienced about two months of CFS/ME and POTS following a COVID-like illness in February (no testing available, so not certain it was COVID, but they had prolonged fevers, weeks of terrible dry cough, shortness of breath, etc.).

We're all used to dealing with a complex illness, but now more and more people in the mainstream world are being forced to reckon with a bug that isn't straightforward. I am hopeful that the prevalence of COVID and its coterie of lingering dysfunction inspires beneficial research into cytokine storms, the nature of the immune system, ways to manage neuro-inflammation, and other issues near and dear to the hearts of the Lyme world (and CFS/ME, PANS/PANDAS, autoimmune disorders, etc.). Fingers crossed.