Long COVID Burden Has Decreased Over Time in Health Care Workers
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 -- The prevalence and burden of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) has decreased over time in health care workers, according to a study published online Nov. 12 in Infection.
Tamara Dörr, M.D., from the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen in Switzerland, and colleagues assessed the burden and course of PASC in health care workers during a 30-month period. The analysis included survey responses from 1,704 health care workers.
The researchers found that 30.7 percent reported one or more PASC symptom in October 2023, with 6.7 percent reporting having PASC currently or in the past. Compared with other variants, PASC symptoms were most common after Wild-type infection. More than one in seven (15 percent) indicated relevant/severe restrictions in their daily activities and nearly three-quarters (74 percent) tried at least one measure against their symptoms, with 81 percent reporting having benefitted.
"Our data show a steady and continuing decrease of PASC prevalence and burden in a health care worker population of predominantly female, and previously healthy individuals over the course of 30 months," the authors write. "Choice and benefit of therapeutic measures vary considerably; however, recovery rate is high after 30 months and seems to be time-dependent."
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Posted January 2025
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