New report reviews evidence on long COVID

This story citing data from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. A few highlights follow. See it for more details. 

"In a 2022 survey, 3.4 percent of U.S. adults and 1.3 percent children reported they were experiencing Long COVID symptoms at the time of the survey. [...] At the time of that survey, about 8.9 million adults and 362,000 children had the condition. [...] Long COVID can cause more than 200 symptoms. [...] Some health effects of Long COVID, including chronic fatigue and post-exertional malaise, cognitive impairment (sometimes referred to as 'brain fog'), and autonomic dysfunction, can impair an individual’s ability to work or attend school for six months to two years or more after COVID-19 infection. [...] Even patients with a mild case of COVID-19 can go on to develop Long COVID with severe health effects. [...] This disease, which has existed in humans for less than five years, can present differently from person to person and can either resolve within weeks or persist for months or years."

Also see the CDC page on long COVID. Also see the link to the Census Bureau's National Center for Health Statistics Household Pulse Survey. Using the drop down menu it shows that 30% of those who have had COVID experienced long COVID. 9% of those who have had COVID are currently experiencing long COVID. Given that 99,596,741 people in the US have had COVID you can do the math.