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16 million Americans of working age report long Covid with four million out of work

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About 16 million Americans of working age have long Covid, and up to 4 million are out of work as a result, according to a report. Long Covid is affecting employment in other countries too: the Bank of England recently attributed the workforce shrinking by 440,000 largely to “increases in long-term sickness”.www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/long-covid-americans-workforce-brookings-report? But many workers are …

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Are Long-COVID and NCDs another Pandora’s box?

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been increasing at an alarming rate in India in the last few decades, overtaking infectious diseases as India’s most common causes of death. Now, some speculate that NCDs coupled with long-COVID could open up a Pandora’s box in the country. Government data shows that the proportion of deaths due to NCDs …

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‘Long COVID’ test devised by the University of Cambridge

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Many questions have thus far been left unanswered regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Foremost among these is the question of how will so-called ‘long COVID’ affect us in the future? There remain many unanswered questions. How many individuals have been affected by the disease and remained asymptomatic is all but unknown, as is the length of …

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Long COVID remains a concern

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So-called ‘long COVID’, where survivors of COVID-19 continue to experience debilitating symptoms even requiring hospitalisation, remains a concern for India’s healthcare system. As The Economic Times reports, “doctors are dealing with [a] rising number of long Covid patients with symptoms like persistent body ache, low grade fever, lung fibrosis, pulmonary embolism and brain fogging in …

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Mild COVID-19 cases: still at risk?

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COVID-19 is often only measured through the narrow scope of its mortality rate. While the death toll is undeniably high, some disregard the disease due to the mortality rate now being between a range of one and two percent. However, some individuals, even those with mild symptoms, can experience lasting effects. So-called “Long COVID” is …

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“Long COVID” symptoms underlined by study

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Research has shone a light on “long COVID” symptoms, identifying stroke, chest pain, and blood clot-related complications as among the most serious adverse effects patients experience after recovery. Review authors of the study, published in Nature Medicine, highlighted the plight of so-called ‘COVID long-haulers’. “We felt that a review of all these possible issues would …

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“Long COVID” symptoms

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In addition to the potentially lethal short-term effects of COVID-19 that have now taken the lives of more than two million across the globe, there is increasing evidence that the disease has the potential to cause long-term effects. Deemed “long COVID” by some, its effects are only now being adequately studied due to the …

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