Long COVID to blame for more than 3,500 deaths so far, CDC reports
Posted on AllSides December 14th, 2022
From The Left
Thousands of death certificates previously tallied by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as COVID-19 fatalities were actually related to long COVID, the ongoing symptoms that some people struggle with for weeks, months or even years after their initial recovery from a coronavirus infection.
The new findings from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, published Wednesday, count at least 3,544 deaths involving long COVID through June 2022 — a number researchers say is likely an underestimate of the true toll.
The tally makes up just 0.3% of the more than one million COVID death certificates the...
