A new investigation led by researchers from the University College London and Dartmouth College suggests 14% of Americans had long COVID by the end of 2022. The details of the investigation are published in PLOS One.

Moreover, Americans who report having experienced long COVID said they also experienced more anxiety, low mood, and difficulty with memory.

All data was based on 461,550 respondents to the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, conducted from June 2022 to December 2022. Researchers compared survey answers among those who said they have had long COVID, those who said they have had COVID-19 but no lingering symptoms, and those who had never had COVID-19.

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Things are going great!

Rates of disability are not decreasing or levelling off, so I doubt the new variants are less dangerous in this regard, but I guess we’ll see.

  • FishLake@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It just feels like living through a zombie apocalypse. Trying for months to get my young children the updated vaccines has been enough to finally convince me of something I’ve known deep down since April 2020. COVID-19 is not a respiratory illness. It is a viral induced psychomyopathy. Like the humble toxoplasmosis infection that makes people love cats and reject basic hygiene. Or the ophicordycep fungus that convinces ants to go to a nice breezy branch before the fungus erupts from its head. Or rabies which makes you afraid of water and want to bite people. If you’ve had it, I’m sorry, but it is too late for you. COVID-19 will inextricably drive you to spread it. But it’ll be subtle. Maybe you’ll “forget” to wash your hands despite always being very diligent about it. Or you’ll keep trying to invite people over even though you hate hosting. Maybe you’ll get super into NFTs or something and somehow that further proliferates COVID. It’s enough to make me want to mail [REDACTED] to federal buildings.