in the journal JAMA Network Open by researchers with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. "People who have survived COVID-19 frequently complain of cognitive dysfunction, which has been described as brain fog," the study read. RELATED: Study: COVID causes brain changesResearchers conducted a survey of 740 Mount Sinai COVID-19 patients from April 2020 to May 2021.
The average age was 49 years old. They concluded that hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a higher rate of impairment in attention, executive functioning, memory recall and other cognitive functions compared to COVID-19 outpatients.Some patients reported having trouble with their memory nearly eight months after a COVID-19 infection.