Two studies describe economic burden, sex differences of long COVID
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Long COVID can cause substantial economic loss and missed days of work, and it can strike women more often than men—possibly because women have increased expression of an RNA gene implicated in autoimmunity—according to two new studies. In the first long-COVID study, published this week in BMJ Open, British researchers estimate that the chronic condition improved only incrementally, and most patients continued to report lost days of work 6
