Long COVID’s health impacts for Australia revealed in new study: Long COVID contributed to a substantial loss of health as a result of the 2021-22 Omicron wave in Australia, according to a new study. Published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the study, which is the first to comprehensively estimate long COVID morbidity using individual symptoms, examined cases from Australia’s 2021-2022 Omicron wave and separated long COVID risk by age, vaccination status, disease severity, and SARS-CoV-2 variant. Long COVID contributed to approximately three-quarters of the non-fatal health loss from Omicron in the four months from December 2021 to April 2022.
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