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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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    1 day ago

    How do we know long covid is not a side effect from the vaccines?

    Is there a control group that is not vaccinated that is suffering from long covid?

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      21 hours ago

      The control group would be people vaccinated who never got covid.

      If the premise is long covid is caused by the vaccine, and some vaccinated people never got any form of covid (Hi! That’s me!) then you can be reasonably sure the vaccine doesn’t cause long covid.

      Similarly if you have people with long covid who never got the vaccine. They got covid, then long covid. That would mean the vaccine is not a factor in long covid.

    • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      7·
      1 day 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).

      …

      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
        22·
        1 day 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.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        111·
        1 day ago

        I did read the entire thing. What part answers my question? Maybe you didnt read it properly yourself?

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        16·
        1 day ago

        Science doesnt scare me and I did read that post. You guys sure like to make up things that never happened.

        And then you continue to bring up some random article you found about one person having long covid before vaccination, when my question was about the article linked here. Just because you find one person doesnt mean that all people with long covid didnt vaccinate.

        I mean, its strange how some guys here are not only rude, but also quite stupid and constantly misunderstand basic questions. Whats going on?

        Look at the comments to my question. None of them even correctly understand what I asked for. I dont know, maybe people are tired.