Share of U.S. adults reporting difficulties due to COVID by COVID history 2022

A survey conducted in 2022 in the United States found that adult respondents who had COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms experienced more hardships than those who never had COVID-19 or did not have post-COVID symptoms. As of December 2022, nearly 27 percent of U.S. adults who suffered from long COVID symptoms reported financial insecurity, while about 29.1 percent experienced mental health hardship. This statistic shows the percentage of adults in the U.S. experiencing hardships due to COVID-19, by COVID history.

Percentage of adults in the United States experiencing hardships due to COVID-19 as of December 2022, by COVID history

Characteristic	Never had COVID-19	Had COVID-19 and Long COVID symptoms	Had COVID-19 but no Long COVID symptoms
Financial insecurity	18.4%	26.9%	14.8%
Multidimensional Hardship Index	13.1%	20.5%	9.8%
Food insufficiency	11.8%	17.7%	8.8%
Mental health hardship	19.5%	29.1%	16.6%
Housing insecurity	9.2%	13.3%	7.8%
Job insecurity	10.9%	15.9%	9.3%

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Release date

May 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

June to December 2022

Age group

18 years and older

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Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The source defined financial insecurity as the situation in which a person reported difficultness in affording usual household expenses.
Mental health: includes respondents who felt down, depressed, or hopeless during the previous week.
Job insecurity: persons without employment due to illness, caring for others, or due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Food insufficiency: people living in households with insufficient access to food in the previous week.
Housing insecurity: individuals with uncertainty to make future mortgage or rent payments.
Respondents included in the Multidimensional Hardship Index experienced at least two of the following: mental health, job insecurity, food insufficiency, or housing insecurity.
The source did not report the size of the sample.

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