What Covid-19 Did to My Brain

Long after my acute symptoms waned, my brain still couldn’t keep up. Here’s why experts think that may be.

Jessica Firger
Elemental
Published in
9 min readJul 7, 2020

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Images from the author’s brain scans

My stove burners were filthy. I had put off cleaning them for close to five weeks, but cleaning falls to the bottom of a to-do list when you live alone and have to convalesce in a pandemic. It was the first week of May, and my acute…

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