Latest findings
Around 5–10% of COVID-19 cases in Australia reported symptoms persisting for more than 3 months
Key risk factors include severe COVID-19 illness, comorbidities, female sex and mid-adult age groups
Up to September 2022, most long COVID research has been conducted outside of Australia, often using pre-Omicron data
In 2019, over 2.4 million patients claimed around 8.2 million Medicare-subsidised individual allied health services
More than 3.8 million Australians had a Chronic Disease Management service in 2019
In 2019, the most used Medicare-subsidised individual allied health services were podiatry, physiotherapy, and dietetics