Cara Santa Maria

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #872 - Mar 26 2022 podcast

And I think an operative word in that headline is the UK biobank. voice-verified

So for those who don't know what the UK biobank is, a little background, and I'm going to take this straight from the biobank website. voice-verified

The UK Biobank is a large-scale biomedical database and research resource containing in-depth genetic and health information from half a million UK participants. voice-verified

So this is a massive database that's regularly added to. voice-verified

It's globally accessible for approved researchers and a lot of really important takeaways. voice-verified

have come from this very useful database of ongoing health information. voice-verified

So what did these researchers do? voice-verified

Well, they go, hmm, a lot of people are getting COVID. voice-verified

We have this database full of information. voice-verified

A bunch of people in the database got brain scans, like total brain scans. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So what information can we glean from that? voice-verified

So it's really interesting. voice-verified

It's sort of a convenient sample, but that convenient sample is actually really, really robust. voice-verified

So they looked at 785 participants who had had two different MRI scans. voice-verified

And between those scans, 401 of them had COVID, 384 of them did not have COVID. voice-verified

And they played with the statistics a little like they compared them based on with with no kind of accounting for severity. voice-verified

They also looked at it after taking out the people who had been hospitalized. voice-verified

So really, they were looking at more, I guess you could call mild to moderate COVID as opposed to severe COVID. voice-verified

And they said, let's look at those brain scans and just see if they're different. voice-verified

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