StatCan just dropped a bombshell report on LC. This is the most important figure. It highlights that the risk of long term symptoms is cumulative, it increases with increasing number of infections. By 3+ infections, 38% report long term symptoms — that’s 1 in every 2.6 people. 🤯
Right now 1 in every 9 Canadians has long covid. 80% have symptoms for longer than 6 months and 50% just never recovered.
Full report here:
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-…
How long before the majority of the population is at 3+ infections and 1 in every 2-3 people is suffering from long covid?
What’s the plan @GovCanHealth? Full speed ahead or? 🚆
@GovCanHealth All the evidence points to increasing odds of developing long covid with each reinfection. Lots more studies in this thread. The risk is cumulative, that’s abundantly clear at this point. What’s not clear is why leadership isn’t doing more to educate the population about this.
@GovCanHealth I try not to say the V word to avoid attracting bots/trolls. But when it comes to LC, V is a harm reduction strategy, not a prevention strategy.
Prevention= preventing covid infections (air/masks/tests). Having up to date Vs on board= harm reduction in case you catch it anyway.
@GovCanHealth The same way you try really hard NOT to crash your car, but you also wear a seatbelt when driving so that if you crash anyway, you have better odds of being okay.
There are a few people out here that are of the opinion that these stats are an exaggeration. I would like to kindly remind those people that Statistics Canada is a national agency and the stats/figure in this thread come from their report on LC which is linked in the 2nd tweet.
Just noticed a typo in the second tweet. It should read 1 in 9 has had* long covid.
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