Covid-19: WHO urges action as 17 million long covid cases are estimated in Europe

An estimated 17 million people experienced long covid in the first two years of the pandemic in the European region, new modelling conducted for the World Health Organization has shown.WHO Europe has called on countries to take long covid seriously by urgently investing in research, recovery, and rehabilitation.The research, carried out by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine in the United States, estimated the burden of long covid in 2020 and 2021 by looking at a literature review and cohort studies from several countries with access to individual level data. Long covid symptoms were grouped around three symptom clusters: respiratory, cognitive, and fatigue or mood swings.The modelling found that females were twice as likely as males to experience long covid, classified as symptoms lasting at least three months. The risk increases dramatically among severe covid-19 cases needing hospital admission, with one…
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