This week Fred and Nick discuss the long tail of COVID-19 that is impacting many people with “Long COVID” discussing some of the theories, what symptoms people see. Long COVID was characterized by symptoms of fatigue, headache, dyspnea, and anosmia and was more likely with increasing age and body mass index and female sex https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…
Based on the most recent published papers we are seeing an incidence of 2-5% at 12 weeks post-recovery. So with 32 Million people in the US who have had COVID19, the low end of people suffering from this is 640,000 people. That’s more than the 500k newly diagnosed heart failure patients we diagnose each year in the US.
If you need additional help or support getting back to work or school safely or with your employee health improvement program contact us.