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The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant health, social and economic impacts around the world. We established a national, population-based longitudinal cohort to investigate the immediate and longer-term physical, psychological and economic impacts of COVID-19 on affected people in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa), with the resulting eviden...
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... A nation-wide study of the impact of COVID-19 on those infected before December 2021, before the onset of the Omicron variant, reported that 220/990 (22%) of those who tested positive met the World Health Organization (WHO) clinical case definition for long COVID. 8 The effect of COVID-19 infections in relation to long COVID may be more complex in New Zealand, which, because of early lockdowns and an initial phase of vaccination, has lower rates of hospitalisations and deaths per capita than other countries. 9,10 Only around 5,500 people have died from COVID-19 in New Zealand, one of the lowest pandemic mortality rates of any country in the world. ...
... Full details of the recruitment strategy and data collection of the Ngā Kawekawe o Mate Korona | Impacts of COVID-19 in Aotearoa study have been described previously. 7 Briefly, all people aged 16 or over in Aotearoa New Zealand who had definite or probable COVID-19 before 1 December 2021, and were not living in a dementia unit, were eligible for inclusion. Quantitative data were collected through an online survey between February and June 2022. ...
