My wife (German in nature) has a gal-gym-buddy, in her early 50s...with Long-Covid. If you follow the German news....this gets brought up at least once a month on ARD/ZDF (public TV).
How many Germans suffer from this? Estimates vary by study, population, and time frame, but multiple large-scale investigations show it's a significant issue.
A 2023 population-based study (RKI-SOEP-2) of over 7,600 working-age adults found a small but notable excess prevalence of long COVID symptoms attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with fatigue and neurocognitive issues most common.
The EPILOC study of 2022 (12,000 adults who had COVID-19 between October 2020 and March 2021) estimated that around 30-percent developed long COVID 6–12 months later, with fatigue in roughly one-third of cases....and cognitive impairments in about 30-percent of cases.
There were broader reviews that cite ranges of 7.5–41-percent in non-hospitalized adults and up to 53-percent in mixed samples, with German general practitioners reporting 5–12 patients per practice with symptoms lasting over 12 weeks.
Late last year....new modeling estimated over 1.5 million Germans living with long COVID of millions of total infections (around 38 million reported by early 2023).
I noted this week....the gov't is putting half-a-billion Euro in a multi-year research program.
What worries folks the most? Well....cognitive impairment (my humble belief).
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