{"id":217923,"date":"2026-05-21T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:45:21","slug":"long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce-280350\">Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce-280350\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/long-covid-will-cost-the-us-an-estimated-8-billion-over-just-3-years-due-to-healthcare-burden-managing-symptoms-and-loss-to-the-workforce-280350<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 08:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Economic Burden of Long COVID<\/strong>: The study projects that the total economic burden of long COVID will exceed US$8 billion from 2025 to 2027.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Individual Cost of Long COVID<\/strong>: An individual suffering from long COVID may incur annual costs between $9,906 and $11,646, with productivity losses accounting for over 90% of these costs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Prevalence and Symptom Persistence<\/strong>: Studies show that 6%-20% of COVID-19 patients develop long COVID, with longer symptom duration leading to higher total costs. Some long COVID symptoms have persisted for five to six years.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lack of Treatment and Resources<\/strong>: There are no effective cures for long COVID, and treatment focuses on managing symptoms. There is a severe shortage of specialized treatment clinics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Funding Cuts and Policy Ambiguity<\/strong>: Recent funding cuts to long COVID research and the absence of a clear national strategy for managing long COVID complicate the situation, alongside ambiguous public health guidelines since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/736573\/original\/file-20260518-58-jofvl0.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C215%2C6999%2C3499&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217925,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217923\/revisions\/217925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}