Long-term effects from COVID-19 infection, referred to as “long COVID,” are responsible for over 3,500 deaths in the first two and half years of the pandemic, according to a new government report.
The report (pdf), released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is based on death certificate data for deaths that occurred in the United States from January 2020 through June 2022. The data were collected and processed by the National Center for Health Statistics, the CDC’s statistical data arm.
Overall, researchers found 3,544 death records that cited long COVID as a “cause or contributing factor of death.” This accounts for 0.3 percent of all 1,021,487 COVID deaths recorded during this period….