Preliminary Findings from a Large Nationwide Study – COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv

ABSTRACT

I identify several sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors as predictors of long COVID including lower household income levels, being Hispanic, female, gay/lesbian or bisexual, and divorced or separated. Even after accounting for such factors, having long COVID was linked to higher risks of recent unemployment, financial hardship, and anxiety and depressive symptomatology, with evidence of dose-response relationships. Overall, an estimated 27.3 million US adults with long COVID were at risk of adverse socioeconomic and health outcomes including anxiety and depression.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.06.23284199v1