Canadian researchers find brain inflammation in patients with long COVID – CTV
June 1, 2023
Leslie Ann Coles knew “almost immediately” something was wrong after her COVID-19 infection in January 2021.
The filmmaker from Woodbridge, Ont., had never had writer’s block in her life — but she couldn’t find the words to make revisions to a screenplay she’d been working on.
“It was really, really frightening,” Coles said.
Her emotional state changed too.
“I’ve never in my life suffered from depression,” Coles said. “My friends refer to me as the eternal optimist.”
But her usual passion for life and work had waned, leaving her feeling “apathetic, for lack of a better word,” she said.
Researchers have been trying to understand what causes the many symptoms of long COVID, including neurological issues suffered by an estimated hundreds of thousands of Canadians like Coles.
