Roughly 7% of all adult Americans may currently have had long COVID, according to the latest U.S. government survey. With no cure or treatment, long COVID is not only burdening the health care system, but also the economy – and that burden is set to grow.
"Whether they're in the financial world, the medical system, lawyers, they're telling me they're sitting at the computer screen and they're unable to process the data," says Zachary Schwartz, MD, the medical director for Vancouver General Hospital's Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic.
Population surveys and studies from around the world show that long COVID lives up to its name, with people reporting serious symptoms for months on end.from a questionnaire done between spring and summer 2022 that found just under 15% of adults who had a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19 went on to have new or continuing symptoms 3 or more months later. Nearly half, or 47.3%, dealt with symptoms that lasted a year or more.
"But there does seem to be, for many of the milder symptoms, resolution at about 4 to 6 weeks. There seems to be a second point of resolution around 6 months for certain symptoms, and then some symptoms do seem to be permanent, and those tend to be patients who have underlying conditions," she says.Given all the data so far, experts recommend urgent policy changes to help people with long COVID.
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