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Long COVID science, research and policy Al-Aly, Ziyad; Davis, Hannah; McCorkell, Lisa; Soares, Letícia; Wulf-Hanson, Sarah; Iwasaki, Akiko; Topol, Eric J. Long COVID represents the constellation of post-acute and long-term health effects caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection; it is a complex...

Determining the societal value of a prospective drug for ME/CFS in Germany Afschin Gandjour BACKGROUND Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) imposes a substantial societal and economic burden. The aim of this study is to ascertain the optimal level of public research and...

I think a financial outcome measure will be important for getting governmental funding support for bigger trials and making a case for future treatment subsidies. So it should be considered an outcome measure of improvement. There are several factors, these are 3 that spring to mind: -...

Impact of COVID-19 on Work Loss in the United States- A Retrospective Database Analysis Jennifer Judy; Alon Yehoshua; Julie Gouveia-Pisano; Richard A. Brook; Nathan L. Kleinman; Alek A. Drnach; Eric M. Rosenberg; Tanya Ghanjanasak; Deborah A. Winter; Feng Dai; Jannette M. Escobar; Heather Sell...

Several analyses of the estimated costs and economic impacts of chronic illnesses like ME/CFS and Long Covid have been published. They all show a heavy economic burden, amounting in the trillions in economic losses, that probably make the strongest argument to convince governments and...

The impacts of long COVID across OECD countries Ana Espinosa Gonzalez and Elina Suzuki Imperial College London, UK OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Health Division From Key Findings — 3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of...

"Long Covid is now prevalent in the UK population, with the most recent estimates in March 2023 revealing 1.9 million people living with the condition, of which 1.6 million people are working age. With a growing evidence base revealing the impact of Long Covid on health and livelihoods, and...

Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why Not only is the prevalence of the condition poorly understood, but it’s also often ignored by physicians and the wider public.

Abstract Background Around 2 million people in the UK suffer from Long COVID (LC). Of concern is the disease impact on productivity and informal care burden. This study aimed to quantify and value productivity losses and informal care receipt in a sample of LC patients in the UK. Methods The...

Long COVID: Costs for the German economy and health care and pension system Gandjour, Afschin Background Patients with acute COVID-19 can develop persistent symptoms (long/post COVID-19 syndrome). This study aimed to project the economic, health care, and pension costs due to long/post-COVID-19...

ABSTRACT In this article, we update our earlier analyses of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) economic impact and its National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding versus disease burden, taking into account the anticipated new cases of ME/CFS resulting from COVID-19...

Abstract The objective of this paper is to model lost Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) from symptoms arising from COVID-19 disease in the UK population, including symptoms of ‘long-COVID’. The scope includes QALYs lost to symptoms, but not deaths, due to acute COVID-19 and long-COVID. The...

Author: Richard Meade Research Fellow in Economics, and in Social Sciences & Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology He also used to suffer from ME/CFS and compares the two in the article as well. "The social costs of long COVID should not be underestimated. For example, suppose an...

https://www.virology.ws/2021/04/23/trial-by-errors-why-have-experts-in-mus-spent-ten-years-mis-citing-a-study-about-costs-to-the-nhs/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21641846.2021.1878716?journalCode=rftg20

@Tom Kindlon is one of the authors. Open access, https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/3-88/v1

Paywall, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2771918 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.0000/jamanetwork.com/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2771918

Free full text: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/occmed/kqaa166/5929827 Impact of Q-fever fatigue syndrome on patients’ work status D F M Reukers, J A F van Loenhout, I Roof, T F Senden, S P Keijmel, C P Bleeker-Rovers, C H M van Jaarsveld, J L A Hautvast, K van der...

(I'm not entirely sure where to post this since it's neither biomedical nor psychosocial research...) The Economic Impacts of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in an Australian Cohort Shara Close, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Joshua Byrnes, Peter Smith, Son Nghiem and Don...

The Development of a Consistent Europe-Wide Approach to Investigating the Economic Impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): A Report from the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE) Authors Derek F.H. Pheby 1,* , Diana Araja 2, Uldis Berkis 3, Elenka Brenna 4 , John Cullinan 5...