Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce
- Written by Bruce Y. Lee, Professor of Health Policy and Management, City University of New York
Losses in workplace productivity account for more than 90% of the estimate.aire images/Moment via Getty Images
The Conversation, CC-BY-ND.Headlines on long COVID have become much more rare than during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean the more than 44 million Americans who have at some point reported long...




