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Long COVID cost Australia almost $10 billion in a single year as sufferers struggled to get back into regular work patterns, with a new study calling for more funding to help people deal with the condition.Researchers from UNSW, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne estimated that people with long COVID symptoms lost about 100 million working hours in 2022, costing the country about a quarter of its increase in economic growth that year.
, making it the third-leading cause of death behind heart disease and dementia. was noted as a contributing factor on the death certificates of another 2782 people who died of other causes.In a paper published on Monday in The Medical Journal of Australia, researchers estimated between 310,000 and 1.3 million people were living with long COVID in September 2022. By the end of this year, they estimate that between 173,000 and 873,000 people will have long COVID.
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