r/science Professor | Medicine Sep 09 '24

Neuroscience Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds. MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected after lockdowns, compared with 1.4 years for boys.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/09/covid-lockdowns-prematurely-aged-girls-brains-more-than-boys-study-finds
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u/carrie_m730 Sep 10 '24

That makes a certain kind of sense I guess, but it's still ridiculous. One of the times was at Pizza Hut. You can't make the ovens cook faster by honking. You can't speed up fry grease, either.

Anyway, one way or the other, it's just one more way people have gotten nasty since COVID.