I got brain fog that won't go away. I've got an onset of clinical depression.

Still no sense of taste or smell at all.

Numbness, tingling, shooting pains, like electrical shooting pains just every few seconds

zapping everywhere through my body.

One of the mysteries about COVID-19 is how it seems to impact so many different organ systems

in our body. We've heard about the heart, the lungs, respiratory symptoms, but a growing

mystery is the impact on the nervous system. As a neurosurgeon myself, the brain is one

of my great loves. So in today's episode, I'm going to dig into COVID-19 and its effect

on the brain, with Dr. Sherry Cho from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Dr. Cho is a neurointensivist. That means she's a neurologist who works in the ICU and she

has been on the front lines throughout this pandemic. She's also an associate professor

at the University of Pittsburgh, studying the effects of COVID-19 on the brain and the

entire nervous system. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this

is Coronavirus, Fact vs Fiction.

Dr., did you ever imagine that you would be involved with a respiratory pandemic like this?

Well, in my line of work as an intensivist, we do deal with the regular pandemics, like

when we had the H1M1, and then in the winter times, we often have a lot of influenza patients.

So I do take care of patients like that, but I don't think I've ever, in my wildest imagination,

had dreamt up a virus quite like COVID-19. So this feels quite surreal at the moment.

You know, we hear about a respiratory virus. It's described as a respiratory virus. You

typically think of lungs and breathing function. What are the ways, if you could describe

how this particular virus is affecting the central nervous system? What are some of the

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