Nearly 18 million American adults are reported to be battling COVID-19 for a long time by 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report published Tuesday found that about 6.9 percent of adults reported that they had experienced long-term COVID in last year’s National Health Interview Survey, and about 3.4 percent of adults reported that they had experienced long-term COVID at that time. Till now he was suffering from COVID.
The report found significant differences in terms of gender and socio-demographic characteristics among those most likely to report having had COVID for a long time.
Women were more likely than men to report currently or ever having long-term COVID. In the 2022 survey, about 8.5 percent of women said they had ever had this problem and only about 5.2 percent of men said the same. Similarly, about 4.4 percent of women said they currently had it, while only 2.3 percent of men said they had it.
People aged 35 to 49 were more likely to report currently or ever having long-term COVID than other specified age groups. About 8.9 percent of adults aged 35-49 said they had ever had the disease, compared to only 6.9 percent of adults aged 18-34, about 7.6 percent of adults aged 50-64 and about 4.1 percent of adults aged 65 and over. This is what he told. And older. Comparable differences were seen between age groups with regard to those who said they currently had long-term COVID.
Hispanic adults were 8.3 percent more likely to have long-term COVID than people in other racial and ethnic demographics. Non-Hispanic white adults were slightly more likely than average to have long-term COVID, at 7.1 percent, and Black non-Hispanic adults were less likely, at 5.4 percent. Asian non-Hispanic adults had an even lower chance, at 2.6 percent.
The survey defines long-term COVID as “the self-reporting of the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 in people who have either tested positive for Have been tested or reported by a doctor to have been diagnosed with COVID-19.”
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