How covid brain fog may overlap with ‘chemo brain’ and Alzheimer’s

Researchers say the brain inflammation in long covid is similar to that in cancer patients. Featuring Michelle Monje.

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oxidative stress in people with covid
Two cells (darker color) being attacked by free radicals (red molecules) in a process known as oxidative stress, which may lead to the brain fog symptoms in some people with long covid and chronic fatigue syndrome. M.E. Newman/Johns Hopkins Medicine/National Institutes of Health