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https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/long-covid-symptoms-viruses-health-labour-australia/>
"Among the current generation of kids, many are growing up with their mother or
father confined to bed or confined to bed themselves. According to a study by
ANU, long COVID is hitting up to an estimated 20% of Australians three months
after they contracted COVID — mostly women, but also men and children. In the
current COVID wave, that means a lot of people coming down sick for a long
time.
Long COVID is keeping people from their jobs and their lives, and as COVID
cases continue, it is unclear whether the rate of new long COVID cases is
increasing faster than the old cases recover.
The result of infection is lasting symptoms. The result of lasting symptoms:
suffering. As the report of the committee into long COVID says, long COVID
causes “lost earnings, impacts on household finances, and, in some cases, an
inability to work or to extend care to family members including children”.
The effect can be seen clearly in the US where disability has risen very
quickly since 2020 amid low vaccination rates and rampant infectious spread.
The pattern is less visible in Australian data, as the next chart shows. Here,
the share of people claiming to be unable to work thanks to disability is
affected a lot by changes in the relative rates of the JobSeeker payment and
the disability support pension.
But we see a general uptrend in people who are unable to work because of
disability, which is not what we would expect in a time of low unemployment.
The signal is particularly strong in people aged 35-44 — prime working years.
A recent study published in
The Medical Journal of Australia suggested that
the cost of the lost labour from a single round of infections in 2022 would be
$9.6 billion and that hundreds of thousands of Australians would be affected."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: December 3, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-3-117190768
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
