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Extra, Extra: Some COVID Survivors Struggle With Debilitating "Brain Fog"
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 11, 2020
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- "What are we doing here? When the air is red and the street lights are on at noon, we ask this question," Dave Eggers writes in the New Yorker about life in a California on fire.
- An unknown number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 continue to experience cognitive difficulties many describe as "brain fog."
- Do you ski or snowboard? This season's going to be a bit different, on account of the whole global pandemic thing.
- A Pinkerton security guard hired by a local news station fatally shot a man who attacked him at a protest in Denver on Saturday.
- A City Council bill would stop landlords and brokers from conducting criminal background checks, helping formerly incarcerated people get over a major hurdle to renting an apartment.
- The stupid and dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory is really catching on in Germany, where far-right influencers have cultivated a QAnon following of 200,000 people.
- All the news that's fit to print, squeezed into a miniature NY Times newspaper box at 1/24 real size.
- And finally, listen to the magnificent Art Blakey, who was born on this date in 1917:
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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