The organization also plans to analyze how many patients in the study were vaccinated and when, Ms. Gelburd said. On average, patients were still experiencing long Covid symptoms that qualified for the diagnosis four and a half months after their infection. The findings suggest a potentially staggering impact of long Covid on people in the prime of their lives, and on society at large. They were much more likely than the younger groups with long Covid to have had pre-existing chronic medical conditions. The insurance data analyzed did not include information about the race or ethnicity of patients, researchers said.

Source: New York Times May 18, 2022 19:05 UTC