Medical Xpress March 19, 2025
The current number of long COVID-19 cases may already be costing the U.S. $2.01–6.56 billion dollars per year, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The study also showed that each long COVID case tended to cost society between $5,084 and $11,646. These estimates are based on a computer simulation model developed by the Public Health Informatics, Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR) team based at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) working with researchers from the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) and Baylor College of Medicine.
“Our results quantify the already significant burden of long COVID on society,” says the study’s senior author, CUNY SPH...
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