Yeah, I know about prevalence of long covid. I suffered it myself. But most common symptom is reduced ability to smell. And, while annoying, it’s not a disability. At least I don’t think you can file for disabilities on any european country due to that symptom.
Many people had had and may still have symptoms from long covid. But one thing is having the illness and other, very different, is that the illness is so serious that it causes a disability on the person.
That’s actually not the case. For example this recent study actually found loss of taste and smell to be the least common long covid symptom they asked about. (no doubt to the fact that usually gets better within a couple months, while the other types of long COVID are often chronic).
Loss of taste and smell is a common short term symptom lingering a couple months after the infections. But long COVID commonly causes chronic lifelong illnesses like ME/CFS and POTS that don’t resolve with time, so their symptoms end up being more common.
Paper you linked does not support your statement. As it’s a paper on people on treatment for long covid.
People whose long covid symptom is just reduced sense of smell would not seek treatment.
I’m still highly skeptical of the “1 million disabled people by long covid in Europe” statement. There should be a clear statistic. As people who have been declared disabled are well counted here.
It may be true. It just seems really high numbers to me.
1 million is probably an understatement. But I think one million is about right for people who experience significant disability from long COVID.
Older data but europe based: https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/13-09-2022-at-least-17-million-people-in-the-who-european-region-experienced-long-covid-in-the-first-two-years-of-the-pandemic--millions-may-have-to-live-with-it-for-years-to-come
Newer data but worldwide: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39830235/
Yeah, I know about prevalence of long covid. I suffered it myself. But most common symptom is reduced ability to smell. And, while annoying, it’s not a disability. At least I don’t think you can file for disabilities on any european country due to that symptom.
Many people had had and may still have symptoms from long covid. But one thing is having the illness and other, very different, is that the illness is so serious that it causes a disability on the person.
That’s actually not the case. For example this recent study actually found loss of taste and smell to be the least common long covid symptom they asked about. (no doubt to the fact that usually gets better within a couple months, while the other types of long COVID are often chronic).
Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.24317656v1.supplementary-material
Loss of taste and smell is a common short term symptom lingering a couple months after the infections. But long COVID commonly causes chronic lifelong illnesses like ME/CFS and POTS that don’t resolve with time, so their symptoms end up being more common.
Paper you linked does not support your statement. As it’s a paper on people on treatment for long covid.
People whose long covid symptom is just reduced sense of smell would not seek treatment.
I’m still highly skeptical of the “1 million disabled people by long covid in Europe” statement. There should be a clear statistic. As people who have been declared disabled are well counted here.
It may be true. It just seems really high numbers to me.