🥡Long Covid Takeaways
- Quality of life same as those with advanced cancers
-46% had mod severe or worse function at 6m
- cost 🇬🇧 £5.7 Billion 2022-23
-£931 lost through work
The cost is likely to be much higher & QoL lower as this was people who could get to clinic & were still able to work 😕
- Quality of life same as those with advanced cancers
-46% had mod severe or worse function at 6m
- cost 🇬🇧 £5.7 Billion 2022-23
-£931 lost through work
The cost is likely to be much higher & QoL lower as this was people who could get to clinic & were still able to work 😕
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Eric Topol
Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
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https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/C1607_The-NHS-plan-for-improving-long-COVID-services_July-2022.pdf
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-024-03371-6