While Covid-19 rapidly emptied cities and shut industries, long Covid has been more stealthy.
Yet its impact in the past two years has been huge: a study last month showed the condition is so widespread that the “healthy life years” lost across the population surpassed those lost to cancer or heart disease.
Long Covid took 80 healthy life years per 1,000 residents — a preferred way of measuring quality of life — in the first two years post-infection, compared with 50 for cancer and 52 for heart disease, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St Louis healthcare system.
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