{"id":6819,"date":"2024-08-18T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2024-08-19T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:48:52","slug":"long-covid-has-cost-the-australian-economy-billions-in-lost-work-hours-new-research-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-has-cost-the-australian-economy-billions-in-lost-work-hours-new-research-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID has cost the Australian economy billions in lost work hours, new research says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In short:<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"en\">A new study has found about $9.6&nbsp;billion was lost in economic productivity due to long COVID in 2022.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Researchers say that represented about a quarter of Australia\u2019s real gross domestic product growth for that year.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<p>Some experts are calling on state and federal governments, as well as policymakers, to put greater focus on long COVID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>In short:<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"en\">A new study has found about $9.6&nbsp;billion was lost in economic productivity due to long COVID in 2022.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Researchers say that represented about a quarter of Australia\u2019s real gross domestic product growth for that year.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s next?<\/h3>\n<p>Some experts are calling on state and federal governments, as well as policymakers, to put greater focus on long COVID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-has-cost-the-australian-economy-billions-in-lost-work-hours-new-research-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long COVID has cost the Australian economy billions in lost work hours, new research says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,18,484,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-economic-losses","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}