SA, you may find some helpful links in the following article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01392-2
– Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19
– Focusing only on cases and deaths hides the pandemic’s lasting health burden on people, societies and economies.
– The COVID-19 pandemic is well into its second year, but countries are only beginning to grapple with the lasting health crisis. In March, a UK consortium reported that 1 in 5 people who were hospitalized with the disease had a new disability after discharge. A large US study found similar effects for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized people. Among adults who were not hospitalized, 1 in 10 have ongoing symptoms 12 weeks after a positive test. Treatment services for the long-term consequences of COVID-19 are already having to be absorbed into health and care systems urgently. Tackling this requires a much clearer picture of the burden of the disease than currently exists.