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An estimated 400 million people have suffered long COVID since the start of the pandemic

Long COVID is costing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity and increased health and social welfare costs, economists say.

Five years on from the start of the COVID-19 crisis, millions of people are struggling with debilitating health problems that have decimated their lives and livelihoods.

The first cases of long COVID were reported in May 2020.

The OECD, a club of mostly rich nations, estimates long COVID could be costing its 38 members $864 billion to $1.04 trillion annually due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation. This does not include the extra burden on health services.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 days ago

    From https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-vaccines-reduce-long-covid-risk-new-study-shows

    At the pandemic’s onset, approximately 10% of people who suffered COVID-19 infections went on to develop Long COVID. Now, the risk of getting Long COVID has dropped to about 3.5% among vaccinated people (primary series).

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    Then, the team conducted analyses to uncover the reasons for the observed decline in Long COVID cases from the pre-Delta to Omicron eras. About 70% of the decline was attributable to vaccination, they found.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thank you. None of this was in the original article but it does answer my question. So long covid does exist in patients that didnt vaccinate, and for the vaccinated, it decreased the risk of long covid.

      I was just interested in if it was possible for unvaccinated to get long covid, and it is. It certainly seemed like almost everyone vaccinated so there was no control group. But at least the study says there is a difference between the groups.