FWIW, “organoids” means this is study was in vitro, not on actual brains in living humans. That said, this seems consistent with the fact that many people have cognitive effects after covid.

>To date, over 620 million people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 with a significant proportion of them infected during the Omicron wave. While most patients survived the infection, post-COVID-19 sequela including neurological manifestations are common.10 The increased efficiency of BA.2 to replicate and causing apoptosis in the brain organoids is alarming, indicating that the long-term consequence of BA.2 infection in the CNS should be closely monitored.

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Is the virus directly infecting neurons?

I don't want to be a negative nancy, but apoptosis of our hueman forebrains sounds not ok!