About one in nine Canadian adults developed long-term symptoms after contracting COVID-19, according to a new Statistics Canada report.
This represents 3.5 million Canadians, according to the federal agency’s report published on Friday.
Nearly 80% of people with long-term symptoms of COVID-19 have been suffering from it for six months or more, the report says, including 42% for a year or more.
Comments closedAbout one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection, according to a Statistics Canada report issued Friday.
That amounts to 3.5 million Canadians, it said.
Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said.
In addition, more than half of those who ever had long-term symptoms still had them as of June 2023.
Comments closedStatistics Canada says about one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection.
The report released today says that amounts to 3.5 million Canadians.
Symptoms are defined as long-term if they persist for three months or longer after a COVID-19 infection and they can’t be explained by anything else.
Almost 80 per cent of people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more.
Comments closedEarly in the pandemic, scientists warned that COVID-19 could cause long-term sequelae even after a mild infection. After all, at least a dozen other known pathogens cause post-infection syndromes. Why didn’t we see this problem coming, and possibly prevent millions of people from developing long COVID?
Comments closedIt’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has been a tragic failure. We aren’t just accepting ongoing hospitalizations and deaths to protect the economy, but also ignoring the social and economic costs of continuing high levels of acute infections. Worse still are more cases of Long COVID, a condition that takes many people entirely out of the workforce. And with every wave, the staffing attrition worsens.
Comments closedAfter 2023, funding for Covid-related services is set to end in BC.
For nearly four years now, British Columbians have been grappling with Covid-19. We’re currently aided by health management initiatives like vaccination, testing, and protective equipment for healthcare workers. Since 2021, these measures have been funded by BC’s Pandemic Recovery Contingencies, a three-year plan that also sustains economic recovery programs and supports for vulnerable community members.
This plan expires at the end of 2023. After that, our government anticipates that “most initiatives will wind down or be integrated into existing government programs.”
Comments closedA review and meta-analysis of long-term cardiac complications of long COVID finds a high prevalence of chest pain and abnormal heart rhythms (arrythmias).
Comments closedLong COVID is no stranger to either patients or those immersed in studies of its effects. In the U.S., one in 7 adults–about 14% of the adult population–has experienced symptoms that lasted three months or longer after first contracting the virus. The worldwide estimate for long COVID is 65 million people.
What is less clear–because it’s still so early in the process–is the impact of some of SARS-CoV-2’s most dangerous characteristics on those hit by long COVID. But some researchers are warily watching for the worst: a potential connection to cancer.
Comments closedA new study comparing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of patients with long COVID, fully recovered COVID-19 survivors, and healthy controls shows microstructural changes in different brain regions in the long-COVID patients. The findings will be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
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Comments closedThere are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, concentrating or making decisions — than at any time in the last 15 years, data from the Census Bureau shows.
The increase started with the pandemic: The number of working-age adults reporting “serious difficulty” thinking has climbed by an estimated one million people.
Comments closedToo many people are suffering from long COVID and other postviral syndromes. Anthony Fauci says we need to step up funding and research now.
Comments closedAlthough many Canadians act as though the pandemic has ended, the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve at an amazing pace with devastating consequences for both individuals and the public at large.
Comments closedMild COVID-19 infections can cause a loss of taste and smell, but a study today in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery suggests that almost all cases resolve within 3 years of initial infection.
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