We’ve published new analysis of the impacts that long COVID has on adults in Great Britain.
6.2% of adults may have experienced long COVID since the start of the pandemic. This includes 3.6% who said they had and 2.6% who said they were unsure ow.ly/S2mm50FAmeY
People who may have experienced long COVID said it negatively affected their lives:
▪️ 57% said it affected their general well-being
▪️ 39% said it affected their exercise
▪️ 30% said it affected their work
Among people who may have had long COVID, all measures of personal well-being were worse than for people who hadn’t had #COVID19 at all, including higher anxiety and lower life satisfaction and happiness ow.ly/BmYC50FAmlm
People who reported experiencing long COVID also more often reported mental health difficulties than people who’d not had #COVID19:
▪️ moderate to severe depressive symptoms (30% compared with 16%)
▪️ some form of anxiety (25% compared with 15%)
Nearly a quarter (22%) of people affected by long COVID said their household finances had been affected by the pandemic, compared with 13% of people who hadn’t had #COVID19 at all ow.ly/PSmJ50FAmt5
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We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.