Millions have had prolonged COVID, and more are to be expected

Sources:

Zachary Schwartz, MD, medical director, Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital.

Rainu Kaushal, MD, associate senior dean for clinical research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City; Co-led the National Institutes of Health’s COVID-19 Recovery Initiative long-term study in adults and children.

Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, principal principal investigator, Adult RECOVER Group, Mount Sinai, NYC; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, Genomics, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery, Icahn-Mount Sinai.

Katie Bach is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

David Cutler, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Harvard University.

CDC: “COVID LONG, FAMILY PULSE SURVEY.”

US Census Bureau: “The adult population of the United States grew faster than the total population of the country from 2010 to 2020.”

US Government Accountability Office: Spotlight on Science and Technology: Long COVID

Journal of the American Medical Association: “Prevalence and Association of Long-Symptomatic COVID among US Adults,” “Association of BNT162b2 Vaccination and Long-Term COVID-19 Post-Infection Not Requiring Hospitalization in Health Care Workers.”

scalpel: “Persistence of physical symptoms after COVID-19 in the Netherlands: an observational cohort study.”

Health Canada: “Frequency and impact of long-term symptoms after COVID-19 in Canadian adults.”

UK Office for National Statistics: “Prevalence of persistent symptoms after infection with coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: 3 November 2022.”

WHO: “At least 17 million people in the WHO European Region experienced prolonged COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic; millions may have to live with it for years to come.”

Watchman: “The data is clear: the Covid virus has long been destroying people’s lives and livelihoods,” “Prolonged Symptomatic Course of COVID-19 Virus After COVID-19 Vaccination: A Community-Based Cohort Study.”

nature: “Outcomes between confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID Study in Scotland” (updated with correction).