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Although it is easy to attribute this to school closures, we should not dismiss the possibility of these results being caused by brain damage from (repeated) COVID infections [1, 2, 3].

[1] Douaud, G., Lee, S., Alfaro-Almagro, F. et al. SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank. Nature 604, 697–707 (2022). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5#citeas

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.9921...

[3] https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-microglia-21676/

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-022-11398-z

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