[deleted] t1_j1pig3v wrote on December 26, 2022 at 9:59 AM

#1,069,914

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quarter_cask t1_j1pil6z wrote on December 26, 2022 at 10:02 AM

#1,069,931

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01453-0

tldr, not that effective as expected but studying long covid is problematic cause it's hard to diagnose due to many diverse symptoms overlapping with other illnesses...
still, if you don't get one due to vaccine then you can't get a long one obviously. also if you get a very mild or unsymptomatic due to vaccine then you also can't get a long one...

[deleted] t1_j1pl65r wrote on December 26, 2022 at 10:42 AM

#1,070,178

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Away_Ad_5328 t1_j1pmg4i wrote on December 26, 2022 at 11:01 AM

#1,070,290

Another study, and analysis courtesy of epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina:

A recent study pooled more then 54 long Covid studies (which included a total of 1.2 million people) and found that 6% of individuals who had symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection experienced long Covid in 2020 and 2021. This is consistent with a massive study in Sweden (2020-2021) that found the proportion receiving a long Covid diagnosis was 1% among individuals not hospitalized for their COVID-19 infection, 6% among those hospitalized, and 32% among those treated in the ICU.

Today, the U.K. estimates that 3% of the general population has long Covid. In the U.S., the population-level burden of long Covid has been historically difficult to grasp. But in August 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau added four questions about long Covid to its Household Pulse Survey. What did they find?

16 million working-age Americans (aged 18 to 65) have long Covid today. This equates to ~8% prevalence. Of those, 2-4 million are out of work due to long Covid.
The annual cost of lost wages is ~$170-$230 billion a year.
The prevalence of severe long Covid is unequally distributed across race/ethnicity and age.

wattnurt t1_j1ptwas wrote on December 26, 2022 at 12:45 PM

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As the other user pointed out, long Covid is incredibly problematic because until rather recently, every researcher used their own definition of the condition, that's why you would get one study saying 3% have it, and another saying 30% have it. On top of that, almost all studies I've seen have used self-assessment by patients of whether they think they have it, which of course has a ton of issues as you would imagine.