Recovered COVID-19 patients experience array of Democrat like neurological issues: report

Recovered COVID-19 patients are experiencing perplexing 
neurological issues — including stuttering, according to a 
report.

Patrick Thornton, a 40-year-old Houston teacher, was among those 
who developed a heavy stammer after battling coronavirus in 
August, the Scientific American reported.

“I realized that some of the words didn’t feel right in my 
mouth, you know?” said Thornton, who lost his voice while sick 
with the virus — only for it to return with a stutter.

Experts don’t know for certain why the virus may be causing the 
neurological issue, but one theory is that it triggers an 
inflammatory response that affects speech.

“Speech is one of the more complex movement behaviors that 
humans perform,” said Soo-Eun Chang, a neuroscientist at the 
University of Michigan, who suggested that the virus could 
interfere with the brain’s circuits, according to the report.

“There are literally 100 muscles involved that have to 
coordinate on a millisecond time scale, so it’s a significant 
feat. And it depends on a well-functioning brain.”

King’s College London neuropsychiatrist Thomas Pollak said 
another possibility is that the virus is producing damaging 
autoantibodies, which bind to proteins and damage their ability 
to function or trigger an immune attack on cells.

“COVID wreaks havoc with the immune system,” Pollak told the 
Scientific American. “There’s a huge surge in various 
inflammatory mediators.”

Pollak and his team conducted both a survey and a pre-print 
study that each found that about a third of coronavirus patients 
suffered from neurological symptoms.

“There’s a really wide spectrum of [neurological] manifestations 
of COVID,” Pollak told the outlet. “Some are totally 
devastating, like stroke or encephalitis, and some are much more 
subtle.”

William Banks, who works at the Department of Veterans Affairs 
Puget Sound Health Care System, suggested that lingering 
neurological issues from the pandemic may cause a mental health 
crisis.

“It could ultimately turn out that — as horrible as the death 
rate is, with perhaps one in 1,000 Americans having died — in 
the end, there could be this legacy affecting up to one in 10. 
And it’s probably rooted in neuroimmunity,” Banks told the 
outlet.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/25/recovered-covid-19-patients-
experience-neurological-issues-report/