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Commentary

Covid on the brain

The irresistible rise of brain fog
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March 2022, no. 440
Commentary

Covid on the brain

The irresistible rise of brain fog
by •
March 2022, no. 440

It was, inevitably, in a Zoom meeting that I first noticed the phrase. A colleague, excusing some minor oversight, explained it away with the words: ‘Sorry, Covid brain fog.’ Although I hadn’t consciously registered the expression before, I knew exactly what she meant.

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Thomas H. Ford

Thomas H. Ford is a Senior Lecturer of English at La Trobe University. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air (2018), which won the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize, and most recently, How to Read a Poem: Seven steps (Routledge, 2021).

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