Association of Long COVID with housing insecurity in the United States, 2022-2023.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the association of Long COVID with housing insecurity in the United States.

Methods

To compare the prevalence of 3 binary indicators of housing insecurity between people with Long COVID (symptoms > 3 months) and COVID-19 survivors who don't report long-term symptoms, we used survey-weighted regression models on 203,807 responses from the Household Pulse Survey, a representative cross-sectional survey of US households collected September 2022 - April 2023. Among people with Long COVID, we assessed whether functional impairment, current COVID-19 related symptoms, and symptom impact on day-today life were associated with a higher prevalence of housing insecurity.

Results

During the study period, 54,446 (27.2%) respondents with COVID-19 experienced sy

SUBMITTER: Packard SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10275012 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature