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…
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”.
@ONS “Self-reported”? Is that how it works now? ONS only works if it is independent and impartial. It stops being those, then it deteriorates its raison d'etre.
@ONS ‘Tiredness’ that rare condition no one had before Covid
@ONS Looks as though we should be going boosters to people aged over 45.
@ONS I actually believe the reality is much higher than this for these reasons - Stigma - Denial - No appropriate testing - Limited data collection I have Long Covid, the most exasperating aspect is the continued repeat infections happening all around me, with zero protection 🦠
@ONS So one of the theories is that long COVID, in some cases, is early stage neurodegeneration. So it could be that the lower numbers in older age brackets are getting other clinical diagnoses instead, for example, dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.