Nearly 18M adults in US have struggled with long COVID: survey

Approximately 18 million U.S. adults will be battling long-term COVID-19 infections in 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

of The report released on Tuesday, In last year’s National Health Interview Survey, about 6.9 percent of adults reported having experienced a long-term COVID-19 infection, and about 3.4 percent of adults reported currently suffering from a long-term COVID-19 infection. It has been found.

The report noted significant differences between those most likely to report having had COVID-19 for a long time in terms of gender and socio-demographic characteristics.

Women were more likely than men to report currently having coronavirus or having had coronavirus for a long time. In a 2022 survey, about 8.5% of women said they had ever had the disease, while only about 5.2% of men said the same. Similarly, about 4.4 percent of women said they currently had the disease, compared to just 2.3 percent of men.

People between the ages of 35 and 49 are also more likely than certain other age groups to report that they currently have coronavirus or have had coronavirus for an extended period of time. it was high. Approximately 8.9% of adults aged 35 to 49 reported having had the disease, while 6.9% of adults aged 18 to 34 and 7.6% of adults aged 50 to 64 reported the same.65 It was only about 4.1% of adults. And he’s older. Similar differences were found across age groups in those who said they had been sick with the current coronavirus infection for a long time.

Hispanic adults were more likely than any other racial or ethnic demographic to have had a previous long-term coronavirus infection, at 8.3%. Non-Hispanic white adults were slightly more likely than average to have had a long-term coronavirus infection (7.1%), while non-Hispanic black adults were less likely to have been infected for a long time (5.4%). Non-Hispanic Asian adults were even less likely to be affected, at 2.6%.

In this survey, long-term illness with COVID-19 was defined as “people who reported either a positive test result for COVID-19 or a doctor’s diagnosis of COVID-19,” self-reporting of the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after the onset of illness.”