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Large evaluation of Long Covid: Long absenteeism among employees - unreported cases cause concern

2022-07-07T03:19:27.987Z


Large evaluation of Long Covid: Long absenteeism among employees - unreported cases cause concern Created: 07/07/2022 05:07 By: Tom Offinger Initial evaluations of Long Covid disease show that patients only make up a small proportion. However, the number of unreported cases could be significantly higher. Berlin – According to an evaluation by Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), longer-lasting complai


Large evaluation of Long Covid: Long absenteeism among employees - unreported cases cause concern

Created: 07/07/2022 05:07

By: Tom Offinger

Initial evaluations of Long Covid disease show that patients only make up a small proportion.

However, the number of unreported cases could be significantly higher.

Berlin – According to an evaluation by Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), longer-lasting complaints after corona infections initially only account for a small proportion of absenteeism at work – but employees with long Covid are then absent for a long time.

Of those in employment who had received a corona diagnosis with a PCR test in 2020, almost one percent was on sick leave with a diagnosis of Long Covid in 2021, as the health insurance company announced on Wednesday based on its own insured data.

The sick notes then lasted an average of 105 days.

Evaluation of Long Covid: Number of those affected is low - is the number of unreported cases significantly higher?

Even slight corona infections could cause a comparatively large number of days of absence in the following year, as it was also said.

According to the evaluation in 2021, after a mild course, those affected by long-Covid were on sick leave for an average of 90 days - for patients who were in the hospital for more than seven days because of Corona, an average of 168 days.

For comparison: In general, every employed insured person was reported unfit for work for an average of 14.6 days in 2021.

TK boss Jens Baas said that the number of people affected by long-Covid appears relatively low according to the analysis.

"But these are only the patients who have also been on sick leave with this specific diagnosis - we also assume that there are a large number of unreported cases."

Long Covid: Many symptoms - no uniform clinical picture

Complaints that exist for more than four weeks after an infection are generally considered long covid - as post covid, if they restrict everyday life for more than twelve weeks afterwards.

There is no uniform definition of the clinical picture.

According to experts, many symptoms are included - from severe fatigue and cognitive impairment to pain in various parts of the body.

According to Techniker Krankenkasse, the basis for the evaluation was data from 4.3 million workers aged 15 to 64 who were continuously insured with the health insurance fund from 2019 to 2021.

The data therefore does not differentiate between long and post-Covid - since November 2020 there has only been one diagnostic key "post-COVID condition", which depicts both.

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Source: merkur

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