5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
"We've seen so much long COVID in just the last year or two."
COVID-19 Impact: How the virus changed our lives 5 years later
Pandemic Deemed 'Over' by 59%, yet Future Health Crisis Feared
40% of Americans say life will never get back to “normal.”
11% say they have Long Covid.
21% say they are very (3%) or somewhat (18%) worried about getting Covid.
58%, are worried that there will be another global pandemic in their lifetime, including 16% who are “very worried” and 42% “somewhat worried.”
5% say they “always” or “very often” wear a mask outside their home, and 13% do so “sometimes.” 28% “rarely” wear a mask, and 54% “never” do.
COVID Impact: 5 years later
ABC 7 New York: COVID Impact: 5 years later
“Researchers don't have all the answers to that, Hsu said. But large numbers of people - many of them previously young, active and healthy - ‘are now effectively disabled because of long COVID.’”
5 years since COVID declared public health emergency in US, still killing thousands
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
"In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
How COVID Helped Trump Win
“The pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million Americans to date—40,000 so far this year as of the week of October 12—has hardly been top of mind lately. Media has largely moved on—even if immunocompromised and vulnerable Americans cannot thanks to the still-circulating virus. COVID, far from its political branding as a mere inconvenience, has been linked to a host of serious health complications including diabetes and cardiovascular and neurological problems. But the Biden administration’s response to the worst public health crisis in a century likely played a significant role in Donald Trump’s return to the White House.”