Actually, a good deal of evidence suggests it might. There have been 3 or 4 recent well-publicized studies suggesting neurological effects of COVID coming at various angles (imaging from Biobank, tests of various mental tasks on people who have or haven't had COVID, etc). The science is far from settled - sample sizes are small, effects are unclear, etc. This is fairly understandable as it's hard to tease apart correlation and causation, etc. unless you have before and after data (the Biobank study did, but the sample size is quite small).
UK science twitter is full of alarmed neurologists and epidemiologists yelling about this sort of thing. I don't work in the area, so maybe they're a bunch of clueless self appoiunted (sic) internet experts too. The idea that COVID does nasty stuff to the brain and might cause a small uptick in Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia also came from similar sources...
Here's the thing. There seem to be endless folks who, armed with a few slogans about "things being endemic" and a mock-realist take on things ("look at me, I'm the smart one who knows we have to live with this") are way more sure of themselves than actual doctors and scientists who study COVID patients and worry about long-term effects. I remember the Internet being full of self-appointed "just a flu" experts when COVID just got started.
I'd say that the prevailing tone among people who actually study this stuff is... caution. I agree. I'm not sure. You're the person who is apparently so full of certainty that we can just steam past all these worried experts (again).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
(a couple items I've seen recently)
The Parkinson's connection is explained here, although the tone, quite rightly, is very much "wait and see":
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-there-a-link-be...
UK science twitter is full of alarmed neurologists and epidemiologists yelling about this sort of thing. I don't work in the area, so maybe they're a bunch of clueless self appoiunted (sic) internet experts too. The idea that COVID does nasty stuff to the brain and might cause a small uptick in Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia also came from similar sources...
Here's the thing. There seem to be endless folks who, armed with a few slogans about "things being endemic" and a mock-realist take on things ("look at me, I'm the smart one who knows we have to live with this") are way more sure of themselves than actual doctors and scientists who study COVID patients and worry about long-term effects. I remember the Internet being full of self-appointed "just a flu" experts when COVID just got started.
I'd say that the prevailing tone among people who actually study this stuff is... caution. I agree. I'm not sure. You're the person who is apparently so full of certainty that we can just steam past all these worried experts (again).