Long COVID: New Report Underscores the Seriousness and breadth of the problem

New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long COVID (yahoo.com)

New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long COVID One of the nation’s premier medical advisory organizations has weighed in on long COVID with a 265-page report that recognizes the seriousness and persistence of the condition for millions of Americans. More than four years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, long COVID continues to damage many people’s ability to function, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a nongovernmental institution that advises federal agencies on science and medicine. “Long Yahoo News

... The report cited data from 2022 suggesting that nearly 18 million adults and nearly 1 million children in the United States have had long COVID at some point. At the time of that survey, about 8.9 million adults and 362,000 children had the condition.

Surveys showed that the prevalence of long COVID decreased in 2023 but, for unclear reasons, has risen this year. As of January, data showed nearly 7% of adults in the United States had long COVID....