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

Just look at long COVID, it is terrible.

In the US so far, there's been sixteen million people.

Sixteen million people with long COVID, mostly young people in their twenties, their thirties, their forties.

You hear some stories, they are horrible.

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.

And it's around the world, young people.

Four million Americans out of a job right now because of long COVID.

Think about the impact it has on them as people, their families, and on the economy.

Think about it as an impact on inflation, just having this talented labor pool not available to create value.

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.

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.