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Now that we have a better understanding of who long COVID sufferers are, let’s review several measures of well-being.
First some definitions. A person faces financial insecurity if they respond that it had been very difficult for their household to pay for usual household expenses. They are in multidimensional hardship (MHI) if they reported at least two of the following:
- Mental health. Feeling down, depressed or hopeless more than half the days in the previous week.
- Job insecurity. Not being employed due to illness, caring for others or losing a job due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Food insufficiency. Living in a household that sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat in the last 7 days.
- Housing insecurity. Little or no confidence in their ability to make mortgage or rent payments the next month.
Figure 3 shows the percentage of respondents who reported hardship in these well-being measures in each COVID-19 category: never had Covid-19; had COVID-19 and reported having long COVID symptoms; had COVID-19 and reported no long COVID symptoms.
Approximately 27% of long COVID sufferers were financially insecure, compared to 18% of people who never tested positive for COVID-19, and 15% of people who did but did not have long COVID symptoms. The overall pattern was the same for each measure. Respondents with long COVID symptoms reported the highest level of hardship defined by each measure.
Respondents reporting they never tested positive for COVID-19 actually faced higher levels of hardship than those who did test positive but reported no long-lasting symptoms.
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