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A third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders: study

Nurses react as they treat a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Milton Keynes University Hospital. [Reuters]

One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said on Tuesday.

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