My husband went to a scientific meeting last week.

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36. Someone I know was recently diagnosed with a neural degenerative disease

It was caught with only months to live.
He had been told and told that it was "just" Long COVID.
It occurred abnormally young.
The disease he has is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
I looked it up and there is at least one case report of it occurring in an unusually young person who had COVID.
A study to see if the incidence increased post-COVID was done in Britain (because of mad cow their incidence is already a bit elevated). But the study was published in 2021. I wonder what a study done more recently would show.