“Suffering in silence is no longer the way forward.” HealthyWomen’s Senior Policy Advisor Martha Nolan brings awareness to the connection between ChronicPain and LongCovid. Read her op-ed in The Hill.
, which analyzed the Census Bureau data, there are about 16 million Americans ages 18-65 who currently have long COVID. Among those individuals, 2 to 4 million are unable to work as a result, and the annual costs of those lost wages come to about $170 billion. The Brookings report notes that those costs could even get as high as $230 billion.
All of this is why bringing awareness to chronic pain, long COVID and their connections is vital. Patients still say, repeatedly, that their providers don’t believe them when they complain of lingering COVID symptoms and that it takes ongoing efforts to find doctors who will take their concerns seriously, diagnose them accurately and provide adequate care. But, long COVID, and millions are suffering.
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