UN Women has released information about the growing IPV against women during the pandemic; they report an increase in calls for IPV by 25-40% in many countries, and “an additional 15 million women would be affected by IPV for every three months of lockdown.”

Researchers found decreased gray matter thickness in the frontal and temporal brain lobes of those who’d had COVID-19 compared to those who had not had the virus. The researchers also found that, based on “performance on cognitive tasks,” those who had contracted COVID-19 were slower in processing information (the primary function of gray matter in the brain).