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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.

  • 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.