An estimated 3.3% - ~2 million people - in private households across England & Scotland are experiencing self-reported #LongCOVID symptoms.

Obtaining data helps better identify the magnitude of the challenge that needs to be tackled - urgently.

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Here is our joint press release with Long Covid Support 🌍 & Covid Action (Now!) sent out after the most recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) data (for England &Scotland not Wales)
“Our government consistently fails to consider Long Covid when discussing the long-term health of the country”

longcovidsos.org/post/why-is-th…

Special thank you to my 114 new followers from USA, UK., Canada, and more last week. fedica.com/!LongCOVIDPhys…

HT Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 for this graphic showing the extraordinary statistic that nearly 112,000 children are estimated to have #LongCovid in England + Scotland

A HUGE increase - 80% - from 62,000 reported in March 2023, and an increase of 33% since December 2023

Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids

I’m neither a politician nor an economist, but finding it hard to see how it could be good to have 3% of the workforce long term unwell to #LongCovid , yet no moves to acknowledge, mitigate, research or treat?

Noted your point about Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing 65000 children with #LongCovid . Possibly one of the greatest areas of policy neglect/denial

ONS: blog by Prof. Christina Pagel

Updated estimates of Long Covid in England and Scotland show that it remains a serious issue. 1.1 million people over 3yrs old report having #LongCovid with the middle aged and the poor most affected

What about duration?
open.substack.com/pub/christinap…

While you wait for the recordings from the 2024 International Forum on COVID Rehab Research, check out the posters from the Forum on our website! tinyurl.com/3kf5n6ax
Congrats to Nadine Akbar, Kriti Agarwal and Chantal Lin and their teams for their abstract and poster awards!

New Green Finance Institute report out today.

We are still in a pandemic. Today's Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that Covid-19 & increased prevalance of #LongCovid are of massive concern to the health & economy of the UK.

'The ongoing costs of its legacy, inc considerable global burden of Long Covid...'

New ONS data on Long Covid show that it is getting worse, not better
Now 2m people in England and Scotland, compared with 1.9m in the whole of UK in Mar 23
The pandemic is not over and every day someone contracts an infection which will disable them

Latest UK data for self-reported #LongCovid for England and Scotland

A rise in cases, despite the removal of access to testing and vaccination.

Long COVID is damaging public health!!

We need urgent investment to continue our response to a pandemic that is not over!!!

James Tucker went on to say: (2/2) 💬

➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Commenting on today’s release, ONS’s James Tucker, said: (1/2) 💬

Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (74.7% of those with self-reported long COVID).

381,000 (19.2%) reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID

Symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after a confirmed or suspected #COVID19 infection that were not explained by something else.

➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Read the full report here

Self-reported coronavirus (COVID-19) infections and associated symptoms, England and Scotland: November 2023 to March

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ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

The sampling method has changed so data not directly comparable to previous releases but this suggests numbers are not coming down

Most likely to have symptoms:
❗️age 45-64
❗️North West
❗️Economically inactive

56% report that they have PEM

Fatigue and SOB most common

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🧵The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have published #LongCovid prevelence data from the Winter CIS

England+Scotland only

❗️2 million (3.3%) have #LongCovid
❗️1.5 m adversely affected
❗️381k severely impacted
❗️71.1% have had symptoms a year or more
❗️51.3% 2 years +
❗️30.6% 3 years + 600k people

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Recording of last week's Dail hearing on long covid is now available on the Oireachtas website at the below link..
#LongCovid #Ireland

oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-…

“The bulk of long Covid research carried out over the past four years has attempted to understand the health issue, not cure it.”
Time for change! Let’s get some therapeutic trials going asap
4 years is too long and our lives are ticking away #LongCovid

technologynetworks.com/immunology/art…