The rates of long covid are insane, and that doesn’t even factor what it will look like after say 10 infections. As of right now the risk for an infection turning to long covid is around 1/6, and that’s for fully vaccinated. So if we just accept covid and let it rip in the US that would be a solid 55 million people or so, as children are at risk as well. And again that’s not counting repeated infection, just assuming everyone got it once and is vaccinated. If even 10% of those are serious the healthcare costs, missed labor, etc alone could cause massive damage to people and the economy. It’s also much worse for those already disabled, and US has insane amounts of chronic disease.
we are already seeing some of the economic impact but with no plan to put public health measures into place it will only get worse. I’m not sure that the government is going to be able to economically stimulate our way out of it either.
The rates of long covid are insane, and that doesn’t even factor what it will look like after say 10 infections. As of right now the risk for an infection turning to long covid is around 1/6, and that’s for fully vaccinated. So if we just accept covid and let it rip in the US that would be a solid 55 million people or so, as children are at risk as well. And again that’s not counting repeated infection, just assuming everyone got it once and is vaccinated. If even 10% of those are serious the healthcare costs, missed labor, etc alone could cause massive damage to people and the economy. It’s also much worse for those already disabled, and US has insane amounts of chronic disease.
we are already seeing some of the economic impact but with no plan to put public health measures into place it will only get worse. I’m not sure that the government is going to be able to economically stimulate our way out of it either.