Via MMWR: Notes from the Field: Long COVID Prevalence Among Adults — United States, 2022. The summary:
What is already known about this topic?
Long COVID encompasses a range of health problems that emerge, persist, or recur following acute COVID-19 illness.
What is added by this report?
Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of reporting ever having experienced Long COVID among Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey respondents in U.S. states and territories ranged from 1.9% (95% CI = 0.9%–4.1%) in the U.S. Virgin Islands to 10.6% (95% CI = 9.5%–11.8%) in West Virginia; prevalence of Long COVID exceeded 8.8% in seven states.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Ongoing assessment of jurisdiction-specific prevalence of Long COVID could inform policy, planning, or programming to support U.S. adults experiencing Long COVID.
