Covid shutdowns had same effect on people's memories as serving jail time, study finds

Covid shutdowns had same effect on people's memories as serving jail time, study finds Lockdowns during the pandemic may have had a similar impact on people’s memories to serving jail time, a study suggests.

Researchers in the UK asked 227 people to name the year in which important news events happened such as Meghan Markle joining the British royal family or the first Covid vaccines being rolled out.

But they found that the volunteers remembered events from 2021 about as poorly as those from four years earlier. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Lost time: Perception of events timeline affected by the COVID pandemic (open access) PLOS One