Defining long COVID: Going back to the start

“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 rec...

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Autores principales: Alwan, Nisreen A., Johnson, Luke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7992371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.03.003
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description “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.
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spelling pubmed-79923712021-03-26 Defining long COVID: Going back to the start Alwan, Nisreen A. Johnson, Luke Med (N Y) Commentary “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. Elsevier Inc. 2021-05-14 2021-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7992371/ /pubmed/33786465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.03.003 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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