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Dar's avatar

The data doesn't tell us why people have not sought aid, and it would be presumptuous to conclude that they don't need it. There are myriad reasons why pwLC have not sought assistance, starting with: newly disabled people know little about the system. People with new symptoms might experience a range of things, like hoping it will pass or being too bogged down to have the bandwidth to investigate an overly complicated and dismissive system. I'd like the perspective of disability advocates to help us understand what this data does and doesn't mean.

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Another data point suggesting that long covid is not impacting the ability to work among those of working age is that the % of prime working age adults (25-54) is the highest it has been since the late '90s. I am guessing that "extremely long covid" (which is what it would take to file for disability) impacted a very very tiny group of non-seniors.

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