'The long COVID figure for those at the lowest income levels was a staggering 50%, versus a 29% average for all adults and 22% for those at the highest income levels.' Class had tremendous influence on who got COVID in the first place, and now it's long-term outcomes. Best health care in the world!
The lowest income Californians are more likely to have lingering symptoms, and more likely to lose jobs.
I haven't read the article so forgive me but ... I think I am highly privileged as a professional with LC. It wasn't easy but I found an employer willing to support me because of my experience and expertise. You only get that after a certain income level.
when i lived & worked in california near the bay area as covid hit, i watched coworkers disappear and not come back, and a few that did that legit had longcovid going on. got so bad i ended up switching to security guarding just do i could avoid people. then it got bad & we had to move out of state
Interesting. The UK Long COVID branch of the Coronavirus Infection Survey found a similar effect, but a little smaller in scale.
And the well-off/conservatives will say it is because the poor are "lazy/don't want to work" as opposed to the reality that they don't have the same resources for support during illness.
Who may rest and who must serve in stark contrast.
I think about this all the time when I see rich leftists interact with masked employees.
The meat-packing outbreaks and in Chicago, the El Milagro tortilla factory outbreak, were memorable cases of “essential worker” exposure. But the article hints at other factors without pinning them down.
The article leaves out some things. Is the sequence COVID>long COVID and unemployment>poverty? Or is it poverty>undertreatment of COVID>long COVID>poverty? Were more low-incomes cases contracted early in the epidemic? I can guess, but the article needs more. Vaccination rates?