OECD working paper. #LongCovid prevalence is likely high across most OECD countries. 10-30% of infections, with a minimum of 39 million people who had or are currently living with #LongCovid. 🧵1/5 
Costs of #LongCovid could be as high as 1.04 trillion dollars across OECD countries. In Japan, researchers identified that the productivity loss due to Covid and Long Covid was equal to $1424 per patient, compared to $606 for influenza like illness. 2/
Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. 3/
Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. 4/
The impacts of long COVID across OECD countries. Download the PDF 👇/end
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