The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
<a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v...</a><p>It's a pre-print of a study that indicates that children born during the pandemic, but not (even immediately) before, have significant cognitive deficites.<p>Authors attribute it to lockdowns (although they ruled out maternal stress) because pregnant mothers and newborns didn't have a postive test result or symptoms. But that might be because they were not tested at all (researchers didn't track them down to check for antibodies) and had asymptomatic infection. There's also an interesting correlation that poorer children had higher likelyhood of deficits, which might also indicate that deficits are possibly due to covid, because poorer people were more likely to get infected during the pandemic.<p>So this research might hint that newborns (but not few months olds) are vulnerable to covid and the result is cognitive deficit.<p>Which might mean that in 20 years we will have a crime wave similar than the one explained by lead hypothesis, that will last for as long as we don't feel like vaccinating newborns against covid.