More than 80% of adults with ongoing symptoms of COVID lasting three months or longer are experiencing limitations in their daily activities compared to before they had the virus, new federal data shows.
October 5, 2022, 7:50 PMAmy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images, FILEare experiencing some trouble performing day-to-day activities, new federal data shows.
The NCHS has been issuing the experimental Household Pulse Survey to ask about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic since April 2020 but included a question last month, in the survey sent to more than 50,000 people, on how long COVID has reduced people's ability to carry out day-to-day activities. When current long COVID patients were broken down by race/ethnicity, Black Americans were the most likely to report problems performing day-to-day activities, at 84.1%. This was also the racial group most likely to report significant limitations, along with white Americans.
The survey did not report data for most states. However, of the 14 states with data, Texas had the highest percentage of long COVID patients with activity limitations at 87.6% and Kentucky had the lowest percentage at 69%.