Working-age adults living with long COVID reported lower life satisfaction, less happiness, and less hopefulness than adults without it, and the gap widened as symptom counts rose, according to a study published in BMC Public Health by researchers at Syracuse University.
The analysis, summarized by the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, drew on 13,880 participants aged 18 to 64 from the 2023 and 2024 National Wellbeing Survey. Thirty-nine percent met the study's definition of long COVID, with women reporting it more often than men, 43.2% compared with 34.4%.
