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Defining long COVID: Going back to the start

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.medj.2021.03.003

2666-6359

Nisreen A Alwan, Luke Johnson,

COVID-19 and Mental Health

"Long COVID" is the condition whereby affected individuals do not recover for several weeks or months following the onset of symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, whether tested or not.1 The name "long COVID" was created by the people experiencing it in Spring 2020 to describe their journeys of not recovering.2 Here, we suggest a way to standardize its definition through outlining what constitutes initial infection with COVID-19.