Satyendar Jain Cites Memory Loss Due To Covid Amid ED's Hawala Probe: Can It Really Happen? What Science Says

Amid the ongoing investigations against Delhi Health Minister바카라 웹사이트Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case, reports suggest that Jain said he had Covid-induced memory loss when asked certain questions pertaining to the case. On Tuesday, a court in Delhi바카라 웹사이트reserved its order against the bail plea of바카라 웹사이트Jain, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case. Special Judge Geetanjali Goel reserved the order after hearing arguments from Jain as well as the ED. The agency had taken Jain into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. He is currently in judicial custody.

However, in a바카라 웹사이트statement to the trial court regarding certain statements made by Jain, ED said that Jain had claimed he had lost his memory due to Covid-19. According to reports, Jain told the ED that he had lost his memory due to Covid-19 when바카라 웹사이트confronted with certain documents relating to his membership in trusts and groups that received funds for hawala transactions.바카라 웹사이트The Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju confirmed the statement, as per reports.

The case against Satyender Jain

The바카라 웹사이트ED바카라 웹사이트case against Satyendar Jain is based on an FIR registered in 2017 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI's complaint stated that바카라 웹사이트Jain couldn’t explain the source of funds received by four companies in which he was a shareholder.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트In April this year, ED had provisionally attached immovable properties belonging to companies allegedly linked to Satyendar Jain and his relatives. The immovable properties of Jain and his relatives were said to be worth Rs 4.81 crore.바카라 웹사이트

Jain had tested positive for Covid-19 in June 2020 during the first wave of Covid-19 in Delhi and had been shifted to Rajiv Gandhi Multispecialty Hospital where he recuperated from the reportedly high-grade fever.바카라 웹사이트

The neurological impact of Covid-19

While Jain claimed he lost his memory when confronted with hawala papers, here's what research by the medical community has바카라 웹사이트found regarding the subject.바카라 웹사이트

According to neurologist Omar Danoun of the Henry Ford Health institute in the US,바카라 웹사이트Covid-19 can induce a range of neurological disorders such as problems with memory, brain fog,바카라 웹사이트strokes, seizures and neuropathy which refers to numbness in the extremities of the body such as바카라 웹사이트hands and feet. Danoun adds that Covid-19 has been noted to be a neuro-invasive virus that can affect the brain and surrounding nerve clusters. The loss of smell caused by Covid-19 is often seen as a result of such neuroinvasion.바카라 웹사이트

Covid-19 has also been known to cause cases of encephalitis or brain inflammation.바카라 웹사이트

Covid-19 and Memory Loss

In a paper published in Harvard Health, Tamara Fong바카라 웹사이트who is part of the Covid바카라 웹사이트Survivorship Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center wrote a majority of Covid-19 recoverees she worked with complained of issues like concentration loss, forgetfulness and confusion. Memory loss and brain fog are thus commonly linked symptoms of after-effects of Covid. Fong also noted that long Covid can affect the three basic aspect of cognition - memory, attention, executive action.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

A 2022바카라 웹사이트cross-sectional study (Long COVID-19: Objectifying most self-reported neurological symptoms) of adult patients with confirmed Covid-19 revealed that patients with both severe and mild Covid including those who were hospitalised showed signs of cognitive and neurological impact. In another study, a바카라 웹사이트team of바카라 웹사이트University of Cambridge researchers in the UK found that 70바카라 웹사이트per cent of the Covid-19 patients they surveyed across the country had experienced some form of memory loss. The study also noted that among the 126 participants with long Covid who were surveyed,바카라 웹사이트77.8 per cent바카라 웹사이트reported concentration issues,바카라 웹사이트69 per cent experienced바카라 웹사이트brain fog, 67.5 per cent바카라 웹사이트reported forgetfulness, 59.5 per cent바카라 웹사이트problems with recalling common words바카라 웹사이트and 43.7 per cent바카라 웹사이트said they struggled with saying or typing the correct word. The hypothesis has been confirmed by several other researchers and studies as well.바카라 웹사이트Another recent study by Oxford University found that Covid-19 caused the brain to shrink, a phenomenon that impacted the grey matter in the brain's areas that control memory and emotion.바카라 웹사이트

Satyender Jain's statements are yer to be corroborated by his medical records. But preliminary research into the topic shows that memory loss could indeed be a symptom of long Covid and may persist for months after formal recovery from Covid-19.바카라 웹사이트

Dissociative Amnesia

Sudden retrograde memory loss, in the absence of neurological causes, is usually referred to as a dissociative symptom. Dissociative amnesia, defined in the DSM-V as an inability to remember important autobiographical experiences, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, is however a controversial phenomenon. Critics have often referred to the ambiguous nature of the case studies diagnostic processes used for patients with such type of amnesia. Critics claim that such studies have also failed to바카라 웹사이트definitely rule out plausible alternative explanations, such as everyday forgetfulness emerging after a trauma, ordinary forgetting and encoding failure, organic causes or malingering, or simply not thinking about something for a long time. In 2022, a paper by B Basagni outlines the case of an adolescent who reported sudden retrograde memory loss, without an organic cause detectable, amid the Covid-19 lockdown. While the study was unable to pin-point the cause of the memory loss, it concluded that "interpretation of sudden unexplained amnesias probably refers to a complex interaction between predisposing psychosocial factors and distress, and a single explanation is not detectable".바카라 웹사이트