Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic have lower IQs: Study says

NY Post ^ | August 13, 2021 | Hannah Frishberg

[Mount Athos]

Scientists have discovered that the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted the intelligence of children born during it: Living the entirety of their lives in lockdown has seriously stunted their cognitive development.

Researchers analyzed the cognitive performances of 672 children born in Rhode Island, 188 of them born well into the pandemic (after July 2020), 308 born before it (prior to January 2019) and 176 of them born during its beginning stage (between January 2019 and March 2020). They found that children born during the pandemic have pronouncedly lower IQs than those born before it.

“It’s not subtle by any stretch,” lead study author and Brown University associate professor of pediatric research Sean Deoni told the Guardian of the trend. “You don’t typically see things like that, outside of major cognitive disorders.”

[Mount Athos]

ace says "Facial recognition is one of the earliest and most important tasks a baby's brain learns to perform. Perhaps seeing a world of masked faces has stunted babies in this critical, first-step task."

[humblegunner]

The world needs ditch-diggers too.
We can’t all be software engineers.

[D Rider]

Mothers not getting enough oxygen?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Terrific.

Whether real or imagined, there will be those that continue to milk this crisis for all it’s worth.

I don’t think the Chi-Coms and the Globalists know what they released, TTYTT.

And frankly, don’t we ALL feel less intelligent these days?

[lightman]

Fetal hypoxia from maternal mask-wearing?

https://www.birthinjuryguide.org/causes/oxygen-deprivation/