The US CDC released a report on the number of deaths of Long Covid these two days.
Most of the time, growing a new crown will allow people to coexist with long-term diseases, but sometimes death or suicide will be caused due to the severity of the disease.
From January 2020 to the end of June 2026, the death certificates in the National Vital Statistics System were studied and analyzed. During this period, 3544 people in the United States died in Changxinguan, accounting for about 0.3% of COVID-19's deaths.
Researchers scanned more than one million death certificate texts, whose terms include "chronic Covid," "long Covid" and "post COVID syndrome", which are all English terms of Changxinguan.
Dr., Director of Rehabilitation Innovation of Mount Sinai Health System David Putrino said that the study was a good start, but it took a "rather short-sighted view" of the death caused by long Covid.
"Obviously, these data are from people who are seriously ill and are finally sent to hospital due to continuous organ damage."
He said that the study missed a considerable number of people, who may grow COVID-19 and die as a result.
For example, research shows that some people who are not hospitalized for the first infection but long Covid will continue to have heart problems. Putrino said that Long Covid would not necessarily be recorded on those death certificates.
"We are reading reports every day about previously healthy people who have contracted COVID-19, recovered and then suffered a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism."
This study may also miss long Covid patients who died of suicide; This may not be on their death certificates.
"We now know that suicidal thoughts, behaviors, thoughts and incidents of suicide are occurring all over the country. These people were healthy before, and the acute Covid infection was not too serious, but later developed into very serious acute sequelae," Putrino said.
He was encouraged that CDC was studying the death caused by long Covid.
Putrino said, "But unless we educate doctors that there are many ways long Covid can cause death, just like there are many ways long Covid can cause permanent disability, we will continue to get these distorted records."
He said: "People's lives have been completely destroyed by COVID-19, so this incomplete data point actually reflects only a small part of LongCovid's experience." "There is more than one way to get your life taken away by long Covid. Death is just one way."