COVID-19 Affecting Mental Health Is ‘The Norm’ – Because Previous Infection Reduces New Risk For Up To 10 Months, Research Finds | UK News

COVID-19 impacting mental health is “the norm” and affects the brain in a variety of ways, including fatigue and depression – especially in mild cases, new research shows.

Evidence from 215 studies also found that loss of smell, known as anosmia, was reported by 43% of patients with the disease, followed by weakness (40%), fatigue (38 %), loss of taste (37%), muscle pain. (25%), depression (23%), headache (21%) and anxiety (16%).

The 30 country studies looked at a total of 105,638 people with acute symptoms of coronavirus, including data up to July 2020.

Lead author Dr Jonathan Rogers, UCL Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘We expected neurological and psychiatric symptoms to be more common in severe cases of COVID-19 , but instead we found that some symptoms seemed to be more common in mild cases.

“It seems like COVID-19[female[feminine affecting mental health and the brain is the norm rather than the exception. “

Meanwhile, a new separate study has shown that a previous infection of COVID-19 reduces the risk of catching it again for up to 10 months.

Researchers looked at the rates of COVID infections between October and February among more than 2,000 nursing home residents and staff.

They compared those who had evidence of a previous infection up to 10 months earlier, as determined by antibody tests, with people who had not caught the virus before.

Residents of nursing homes who had previously been infected were 85% less likely to contract the virus again between October last year and February this year than residents who had never been infected, the researchers found.

And staff who caught the virus previously were 60% less likely than staff who had not had the infection before, the study suggested.

The results suggest strong protection in both groups, but the researchers cautioned that the two percentages might not be directly comparable, as staff may have accessed tests outside of …