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Prevalence of Long COVID Among Adults Who Have Ever Had COVID-19, by Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, Spring 2023

Rebecca Ahrnsbrak, Zhengyi Fang
In: Statistical Brief (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (US)) [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2001. Statistical Brief #557.
2024 Sep.
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Prevalence of Long COVID Among Adults Who Have Ever Had COVID-19, by Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, Spring 2023

Rebecca Ahrnsbrak et al.
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Long COVID, also known as Post-COVID Conditions, was first reported anecdotally in April 2020 and has continued to cause significant suffering and disability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines long COVID as “signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after acute COVID-19 infection” and notes that long COVID encompasses a wide range of symptoms that can last for weeks, months, or years. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) estimates that 6.9 percent of adults have ever had long COVID as of early 2023 and finds differences by sex, age group, race and ethnicity, and preexisting chronic conditions. Similarly, the 2022 National Health Interview Survey estimates that 6.9 percent of adults in the United States ever had long COVID, with differences observed by sex, age group, race and ethnicity, poverty status, and urbanicity. An analysis of the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System estimates that 6.4 percent of adults in the United States ever had long COVID and finds variation by state.

This Statistical Brief presents prevalence estimates of long COVID specifically among the subset of adults who reported ever having COVID-19 by selected demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population as of spring 2023. Questions about long COVID were added to the 2023 MEPS spring interview rounds. The estimates are based on the 2022 MEPS-Household Component (MEPS-HC) full-year public use file. Although these measures are in the 2022 full-year data file, the interviews were fielded in spring 2023, which is the final round of data collection for th2022 MEPS sample, and asked respondents about whether sample members ever had COVID-19 and long COVID. Thus, these estimates represent a lifetime prevalence estimate as of spring 2023. All differences between estimates discussed in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level unless otherwise noted.

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