COVID is making Americans stupid: Study shows worrying about virus leads to people making bad choices and performing poorly on simple cognitive tests
- COVID-anxious people were found to perform worse on information processing tests and had a distorted view of risks, according to a study
- It was done by McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital
- In all, people got more sensitive to risk and slower at processing information as the pandemic progressed
- The study surveyed 1,500 Americans between April and June 2020
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