The economic burden of long <scp>COVID</scp> in Australia: more noise than signal?
Long COVID likely imposed a small but significant aggregate toll on the Australian economy, while exposing tens of thousands of Australians to substantial personal economic hardship and contributing to labour market supply constraints. Yet while some signal from long COVID is discernible in the labour force data, Australia lacks adequate direct surveillance data to securely guide policy making.
Authors
- Ngan T. T. Dinh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-2628)
- Martin Hensher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6444-6827)
- Mary Rose Angeles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-9198)
- Barbara de Graaff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-9561)
- Ting Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-1930)
Institutions
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Deakin University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Medical Journal of Australia
- Published
- 2024-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52468
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.11