# Long COVID’s Impact on Young Adults, Jobs and Health Care

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2097186389552951744
- Source account: [@BruceLe53509778](https://x.com/BruceLe53509778)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:59
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care) Just look at long COVID, it is terrible.

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=2) In the US so far, there's been sixteen million people.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=7) Sixteen million people with long COVID, mostly young people in their twenties, their thirties, their forties.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=13) You hear some stories, they are horrible.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=15) Somebody who used to be able to jog five kilometer a day can barely walk now because the lung damage, which is permanent, is very profound.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=23) And it's around the world, young people.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=26) Four million Americans out of a job right now because of long COVID.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=30) Think about the impact it has on them as people, their families, and on the economy.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=34) Think about it as an impact on inflation, just having this talented labor pool not available to create value.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=41) You know, a lot of time we talk about healthcare, but I would like to propose that we actually talk about healthcare, but it's not healthcare that we are doing as a society.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lLItH6z2YWkZ/en/long-covid-s-impact-on-young-adults-jobs-and-health-care?t=50) It's sick care. We are mostly taking care of people that are sick, and if you think about it, we have to really invest much more in prevention.