{"id":7591,"date":"2024-12-03T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2024-12-04T03:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:04:59","slug":"experimental-study-shows-connection-between-covid-infection-and-age-related-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/experimental-study-shows-connection-between-covid-infection-and-age-related-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental study shows connection between COVID infection and age-related blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental study in mice shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection can damage the retinas, with long-term implications for vision. Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection include various neurocognitive symptoms, suggesting the virus can affect the central nervous system. The eyes are also part of the central nervous system, but little is known about the virus\u2019s effects on these organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental study in mice shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection can damage the retinas, with long-term implications for vision. Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection include various neurocognitive symptoms, suggesting the virus can affect the central nervous system. The eyes are also part of the central nervous system, but little is known about the virus\u2019s effects on these organs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/experimental-study-shows-connection-between-covid-infection-and-age-related-blindness\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experimental study shows connection between COVID infection and age-related blindness<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,11,8,14,1140],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vision-loss","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7593,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}