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A recent study by the University of Washington found that the COVID pandemic may have prematurely aged teenagers' brains, particularly young girls. Many people experienced disruptions to their daily lives and routines due to stay-at-home orders and limited social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, with this being shown to particularly affect the well-being of young people. Now, a study by researchers at the University of Washington has found that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused unusual changes in adolescents’ brain development, resulting in accelerated brain maturation. "We were really surprised to find that in our post-COVID data the cortical thickness...

Well, here’s an interesting tidbit from a presentation to the FDA’s Product Advisory Committee on Oct 22, 2020, reviewing the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.Buried within the presentation, this part of which had to do with the monitoring of the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and how the FDA was going to monitor possible side effects aggressively, a slide was accidentally shown for a fraction of a second that listed the side effects they expected might arise from mass vaccinations with the new mRNA vaccine. The list was derived from the testing done by the manufacturers and from...