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The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.
Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job.
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Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Published Oct. 11, 2020
Updated July 20, 2021
After contracting the
coronavirus
in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.
Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her
Covid-19
symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.
Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.
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Oct. 12, 2020
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# ‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors
The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.
Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
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- Published Oct. 11, 2020Updated July 20, 2021
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After contracting the [coronavirus](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/politics/covid-survivors.html) in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.
Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her [Covid-19](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/politics/covid-survivors.html) symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.
Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.
[Subscribe to The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like.
[Pam Belluck](https://www.nytimes.com/by/pam-belluck) is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor.
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Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.
Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
- Published Oct. 11, 2020Updated July 20, 2021
After contracting the [coronavirus](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/politics/covid-survivors.html) in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.
Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her [Covid-19](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/politics/covid-survivors.html) symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.
Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.
[Subscribe to The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like.
[Pam Belluck](https://www.nytimes.com/by/pam-belluck) is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor.
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