That head line though… Infecting babies sounds like a good thing like this.

What’s actually in the rest of the article of course paints a slightly different picture:

data from 46 individuals who received care at a hospital for COVID-19

So this is not about long COVID in general but about people that had to be hospitalized.

Six months after their stay in hospital […] measure their memory, attention and reasoning.

those who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 were less accurate and displayed slower response times

These results were “similar in magnitude to the effects of ageing between 50 and 70 years of age,” the authors wrote.

And this is where they got their headline from.