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Oct 14 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Most likely to support continued mask wearing: Black people, and people making <$40K / year. Black ppl also more likely to know someone who died of Covid, and to have had finances adversely impacted by it.
Same groups also more likely to wear masks
Source: kff.org/coronavirus-co…

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Oct 6
And today we have new #longcovid data from the UK’s ONS. 3.5% of population (2.3M) experiencing LC. Of those, 46% have been sick for at least 1 year. 72% had activities limited; 15% had activities limited “a lot”. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
The UK and US data aren’t perfectly comparable because they ask dif Qs. US’s HPS asks about lingering symptoms after a Covid infection that last 12 weeks. UK’s ONS asks people to self identify as having “long Covid” for at least 4 weeks. (2/)
Personally, I prefer the US Q. (1) long Covid may be stigmatized, which may suppress response rate. Further, most media portrayals of people with LC are those who are severely impacted. Which, anecdotally, makes some who are less severely impacted assume they don’t have LC. (3/)
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Oct 5
The Census Bureau’s household pulse survey just released new #longcovid data, incl. questions about the impact of LC on day-to-day activities (!!). Today: 4.4M US adults — 25% of those with LC — have activities “limited a lot” by LC. (1/)
Another 10.4M are “a little” limited (56%), and 3.8M have LC but aren’t limited at all (19%). This is broadly comparable to UK findings: among ppl with LC for 12+ weeks,
20% are limited a lot, 53% are somewhat limited, and 27% aren’t limited by LC. (2/)
(Differences in data collection and survey question wording could explain some of the difference.) (3/)
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Sep 5
Great thread on #longcovid trends in the UK, using ONS data. ~1% of pop age 35-69 has daily activities limited “a lot” by LC. ~2% of that group has had symptoms >1 year (ie, less recovery than might be hoped). (1/2)
ONS now switching to virtual data collection. They found ppl are 30% more likely to say they have #longcovid on a virtual survey. (Note: US household pulse survey is virtual.) ONS statisticians posited a couple potential reasons:
“For example, participants might have more time to read the survey questions and consider their response and all the response options when responding remotely.”
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Sep 1
@zeynep @KashPrime @BenMazer While I like the push for better quality numbers — which I continue to say I agree with! — I don’t agree that existing data gives us a clear answer. This fed piece talks about some of the challenges of using CPS data to estimate LC impact federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…
@zeynep @KashPrime @BenMazer Also I am clearly not saying 2-4M ppl need disability. Some ppl still working, just at ⬇️ hours. Others are temporarily not working — it needs to be a year for SSDI. It’s a point in time estimate, not a claim about long-term disabled. I assume much smaller # would need disability
@zeynep @KashPrime @BenMazer But finally, I’m not sure I understand why @zeynep thinks showing an estimate is bad for LC patients. What exactly does she think is going to create urgency for better data collection? And if she believes existing sources are adequate — and maybe she’s right…
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Aug 31
Latest @nytimes AM newsletter by @DLeonhardt covered US perception of Covid risk. Incredibly, only ONE mention of #longcovid: “vaccines reduced the chances of long Covid”. Meanwhile, my research found 2-4M Americans may be unable to work due to LC; millions more are affected (1/)
Two major issues with this omission. First, a recent study of 13M ppl, published in @NatureMedicine, found that vaccines reduce the risk of #longcovid by only 15%. Certainly not enough of a risk reduction to cross LC off the “things to be worried about” list. (2/)
Second, according to @uscensusbureau household pulse survey, about 8% of the US population has long Covid today. Of those, I estimate 1/8-1/4 have their work impacted. We are talking millions of people. (3/)
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Aug 24
NEW REPORT: using updated data, I find that 2-4m Americans are not working due to #longcovid. This is costing us ~$170 billion annually in lost wages alone. A thread (1/) brookings.edu/research/new-d…
In Jan, I published a report estimating 1.6 M Americans were out of work due to long Covid. The report called on census bureau to add long Covid questions to existing surveys, like household pulse and current population survey (2/) brookings.edu/research/is-lo…
In June, the census bureau did just that: added Qs on long Covid prevalence to the nationwide household pulse survey. From the latest day, we know that 16.3 M working age Americans have long Covid today. (3/)
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