New research: What coronavirus does to the brain

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The study examined the brains of 41 Covid-19 patients who died during hospitalisation. The researchers found no evidence of the virus in the patients’ brain cells. But in every patient they found significant brain pathology.

A lot of areas suffered damage from a lack of oxygen.Some of these were large areas caused by strokes, but most were very small and only detectable with a microscope.

Based on other features, the researchers believe these small areas of hypoxic damage were caused by blood clots that temporarily stopped the supply of oxygen to that area.

Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center