https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2024/08/21/innovationrx-covid-may-be-causing-mental-illness-and-rewiring-our-brains/
But as two new studies published in the past week show, severe COVID isn’t the only risk faced by those with the disease. New findings in JAMA Psychiatry find that levels of mental illness such as depression, anxiety and self-harm are elevated after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Additionally, a new study published in Scientific Reports found that patients who lost their sense of smell after a COVID infection saw long-term structural changes to their brains as well as a tendency to more impulsive behaviors.
What! Wow. I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time.
Not to be pedantic but it doesn't really effect cats. Cats are the primary host and a major part of its lifecyle, but it really only effects the intermediate hosts like mice and people as far as behavioral changes and pathology.
I meant mice but wrote cats because I’m stupid