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.
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.
It's all fucked. I'd be weary of comparing those sets of data though. Here it's fine, we both know what's up, but when I was looking into the Data for the Civilian Labor Force with Disability graph I found that SSDI applications had not increased to match the disability spike the Current Population Survey is recording. Which to me, means people are basically just out there suffering with this shit without applying for or getting any help or anything. Hell, they're probably still out there trying to work through this shit doing gig work or something. I also wouldn't be surprised if the undocumented immigrant population was getting hit particularly hard by all this given their inability to apply for benefits but stuck on the front lines of "essential" workers.