The staggering figures shows the conditions should be a health priority, authors of a new study say.
delivered a $10 billion blow to the Australian economy in just a single year, new research has found., say the results show the federal government should make the condition a health priority.
The knock-on effect upon the national economy was about $9.6 billion, or one-quarter of Australia's real gross domestic product growth that year. Symptoms of long COVID, or SARS-CoV-2 include shortness of breath, heavy coughing, fatigue, "brain fog" and sleep problems.University of Melbourne Professor Tom Kompas said workers with long COVID aged 30 to 49 were costing the economy the most.The symptoms of long COVID include coughing, fatigue, sleep loss and shortness of breath.
The research team estimated between 310,000 and 1.3 million people were living with long COVID in September 2022.Senior author Professor Raina MacIntyre, from UNSW, said the research highlighted the need to be better support people grappling with long COVID.
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