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ONS release Long Covid Report

> 2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID [most of whom, longer than 2 years]

> Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (74.7% of those with self-reported long COVID).

> 381,000 (19.2%) reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

twitter.com/ONS/status/1783418

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationand

X (formerly Twitter)Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) on X2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID Symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after a confirmed or suspected #COVID19 infection that were not explained by something else. ➡️ https://t.co/8VDSf2siUq

Thread critiquing just one of the graphs in the survey report. A deliberate deception on people's reports of when their long covid started. To make it look like long covid is less common now after a bout of covid than it was 2 years ago. It turns out the incidence of new "Long Covid" sufferers is actually flat & constant. And the cumulative numbers of "Long Covid" sufferers is rising.

Surprise!

threadreaderapp.com/thread/178

threadreaderapp.comThread by @1goodtern on Thread Reader App@1goodtern: Ok. Look at this chart. It's from the ONS Winter Covid Survey analysis. Is it designed to be confusing? Yes. I think so. It's a chart of when people doing the survey who said they were...