{"id":8391,"date":"2025-04-09T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2025-04-10T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:41:48","slug":"studies-1-in-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-with-heaviest-burden-on-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/studies-1-in-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-with-heaviest-burden-on-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies: 1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1 in 7 working-age US adults had experienced long COVID by late 2023, and socially disadvantaged adults were over 150% more likely to have persistent symptoms, two new studies find.<\/p>\n<h2>Future public health, economic burdens<\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday in Communications Medicine, Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH, of Northeastern University, analyzed data from the US Census Bureau&#8217;s Household Pulse Survey from September and November 2022 and August to October 2023 on more than 375,000 US adults, including nearly 50,000 with self-reported long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Kim assessed sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors as predictors of long COVID; estimated the risk of unemployment, financial difficulties, and anxiety and depression among working-age adults (ages 18 to 64 years) and those currently experiencing lingering symptoms; and tallied the economic effects of the resulting lost wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1 in 7 working-age US adults had experienced long COVID by late 2023, and socially disadvantaged adults were over 150% more likely to have persistent symptoms, two new studies find.<\/p>\n<h3>Future public health, economic burdens<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday in Communications Medicine, Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH, of Northeastern University, analyzed data from the US Census Bureau&#8217;s Household Pulse Survey from September and November 2022 and August to October 2023 on more than 375,000 US adults, including nearly 50,000 with self-reported long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Kim assessed sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors as predictors of long COVID; estimated the risk of unemployment, financial difficulties, and anxiety and depression among working-age adults (ages 18 to 64 years) and those currently experiencing lingering symptoms; and tallied the economic effects of the resulting lost wages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/studies-1-in-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-with-heaviest-burden-on-the-poor\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Studies: 1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor<\/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":[18,11,8,14,230,51],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","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=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}