A study co-conducted by ISPH team members McKaylee Robertson, Sarah Kulkarni, Jenny Shen, and Denis Nash in collaboration with researchers from Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research (PHICOR) and Baylor College of Medicine, showed that long COVID could be a very significant drain on businesses, third-party payers, the healthcare system, and society.
A given long COVID case tended to cost society between $5,084 to $11,646 each year. A computational simulation model was developed representing the clinical course, health effects, and associated costs of a person with long COVID. With long COVID affecting approximately 44.69–48.04 million people in the United States, the current number of long COVID cases could cost society at least $2.01–$6.56 billion, employers at least $1.99–$6.49 billion in productivity losses, and third-party payers $21.0–$68.5 million annually.
Read the study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
