Count the Cost of Disability Caused by COVID-19

Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19

Count the Cost of Disability Caused by COVID-19

Count the Cost of Disability Caused by COVID-19 860 484 Avalon Health Economics LLC

Andrew Briggs & Anna Vassal

Focusing only on cases and deaths hides the pandemic’s lasting health burden on people, societies and economies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is well into its second year, but countries are only beginning to grapple with the lasting health crisis. In March, a UK consortium reported that 1 in 5 people who were hospitalized with the disease had a new disability after discharge1. A large US study found similar effects for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized people2. Among adults who were not hospitalized, 1 in 10 have ongoing symptoms 12 weeks after a positive test3. Treatment services for the long-term consequences of COVID-19 are already having to be absorbed into health and care systems urgently. Tackling this requires a much clearer picture of the burden of the disease than currently exists.

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