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How many people have long Covid?
- cockmaster3k 5y agomuh long coviddd! why don't these trumpers get their booster shots! Don't they believe in facts and science? Fauci said!
- mdp2021 5y agoAbridgements: «Some estimates have ranged on the more conservative side. One study, collected as part of the Covid Symptom Study using the app ZOE Covid from researchers at King’s College London, took a survey of 4 million people between 2020-03-25 and 2020-06-30: 4.5% of people with Covid-19 reported symptoms after 8 weeks, and only 2.3% of people after 12 weeks – a pretty low estimate. [...] this estimate might be on the lower side. [It] most likely missed out on sufferers too fatigued to log all their symptoms on the app on a regular basis. Also, if the patient had fewer than five symptoms on the last day they used the app, it counted them as recovered. This study was deliberately designed to give a conservative estimate, says Claire Steves, one of the study’s authors: they wanted to establish without doubt that long Covid existed [...]; it only included people whose positive test for Covid-19 was confirmed by a PCR test» «Other studies returned a much higher number. React-2 [...] report from Imperial College London surveyed over 500,000 participants between Sep 2020 and Feb 2021 [...] estimated that almost 40% still had at least one symptom lasting 12 weeks or more - ~2 million people in England» «Falling somewhere in between is the data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS): it estimates that 13.7% of a sample of over 20,000 people (then compared against a control group of a similar size) who had tested positive for Covid-19 still reported symptoms after at least 12 weeks» In very rounded percentages, 5% to 15% up to 40% suffered symptoms 12 weeks after.