Long COVID was cited in the death certificates of at least 3,544 people in the U.S. in the first 2.5 years of the pandemic, according to a CDC study published today
the findings underscore that while long COVID is "associated with long-term illness, it "can be a cause of death."Researchers, including study lead author Ahmad, analyzed death certificates mentioning long COVID as the cause or contributing factor of death from Jan. 1, 2020, through June 30, 2022 — noting that "Described changes in mortality trends, death counts, and rates may be underestimates.
"These differences may be due to higher mortality among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic populations, resulting in fewer COVID-19 survivors left to experience long COVID conditions," the study notes. "Low rates of long COVID among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic people may also be due to poor access to health care and appropriate diagnosis and reporting of post-COVID conditions in these populations."the study was a good starting point, though it took a "fairly myopic view" of COVID deaths.
"This is very clearly data from folks who got very sick, ended up at the hospital with sustained organ damage," said Putrino, who works with long COVID patients and was not involved in the study. "We read every single day about people who have previously been healthy, get COVID, recover and then have a heart attack or stroke or pulmonary embolism," added Putrino, noting that suicides have also been linked to long COVID."We're just going to continue to get these sorts of skewed records unless we educate physicians that there are many ways that long Covid can cause death, just like there are many ways long Covid can cause permanent disability," Putrino told CNN.
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