Yes, but study after study shows brain damage. In fact, viral reservoirs often persist in brain tissue for up to a year after infection. This is why we're seeing problems with very young children who were not born during lockdown or were infants.
There were lots of additional problems, but at some point we need to own up to the brain damage and other neurological impacts being caused by repeated COVID infections.
Children born after lockdowns ended came into a world massively transformed by our response to the disease. Years later it still takes a week longer than it used to for my doctor to get blood work back because they are still short staffed. Parents that used to go out more often and take their kids into the world with them do so less often because they WFH and the covid response disrupted social relationships. Many people are still to this day more isolated than before. I’m not so sure it’s possible to separate effects on the world from effects from the disease for newborns.
Covid isn’t the only viral disease that has neurological effects. Covid is probably the most thoroughly studied disease in history by a mile though. It’s possible we are just more aware of its neuro effects due to insane levels of scrutiny rather than those effects being much more significant than for other common diseases.
>Covid is probably the most thoroughly studied disease in history by a mile though.
last estimates I read mentioned 400k covid research papers, diabetes had over 1.5m and 'cancers' , as varied as that topic is , has many many millions of papers.
The intensity of research was high, and the technology yielded quick high quality results, but there isn't much reason to consider it to be 'the most thoroughly studied disease' -- maybe if you go by some arbitrary figure like 'megabytes of genomic data sequenced' ?
>Years later it still takes a week longer than it used to for my doctor to get blood work back because they are still short staffed.
As they should be. Lots of American medical workers quit during and after the pandemic because the American people treated them so horribly, screaming at them that "it's just a flu", that it was a hoax, to take off their masks, to give them horse dewormer, etc. If this is how Americans treat their medical workers, they don't deserve to have proper staffing.
There were lots of additional problems, but at some point we need to own up to the brain damage and other neurological impacts being caused by repeated COVID infections.