long covid

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of long COVID.

   In Italy this is not much discussed for now. But the long covid is here, too, of course. I think drs [doctors] will slowly come to understand it, as they see patients fail to recover properly.

   2020 May 15, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 15 May 2020

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of long COVID.

   There is also absolutely no doubt of the severity of the consequences of long Covid.

   2020 September 8, Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, “Oral Evidence: Social Care: Funding and Workforce, HC 206”, in UK Parliament: Committees (Health and Social Care Select Committee, House of Commons of the United Kingdom), London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2022, question 185

alternative long covid · alternative long Covid

1. uncountablemedicineLong-term sequelae or symptoms (such as brain fog, extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.First known use 2020

   There is also absolutely no doubt of the severity of the consequences of long Covid.

   2020 September 8, Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, “Oral Evidence: Social Care: Funding and Workforce, HC 206”, in UK Parliament: Committees (Health and Social Care Select Committee, House of Commons of the United Kingdom), London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2022, question 185

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   In Italy this is not much discussed for now. But the long covid is here, too, of course. I think drs [doctors] will slowly come to understand it, as they see patients fail to recover properly.

   2020 May 15, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 15 May 2020

   The #LongCovid #COVID19 is starting to be addressed on major newspapers in Italy 🇮🇹 too:[…]

   [2020 May 21, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2022

   There are strong reasons to argue that Long Covid is the first illness to be made through patients finding one another on Twitter and other social media. Both of us have Long Covid and have contributed to making it.

   2021 January, Felicity Callard, Elisa Perego, “How and Why Patients Made Long Covid”, in Ichiro Kawachi, S. V. Subramanian, editors, Social Science & Medicine, volume 268, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, article number 113426, page 2, column 1

   As many as 1 in 7 children may have symptoms linked to the coronavirus months after testing positive for COVID-19, the authors of an English study on long COVID in adolescents said on Wednesday. Children rarely become severely ill with COVID-19 but they can suffer lingering symptoms, and the study is one of the largest of its kind on how common so-called long COVID is in the age group.

   2021 September 1, “English Study Finds Long COVID Affects up to 1 in 7 Children Months after Infection”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022

   Her consultant had been matter of fact: 'Post-viral fatigue,' he had said briskly. 'We see a lot of it after the flu, or viral pneumonia like yours …' he'd shrugged, 'it's similar to long COVID, that tail of symptoms that carry on after the initial infection has gone. I'll prescribe you some steroid treatment, but you need to rest.'

   2022, Nicola Cornick, “Lucy”, in The Winter Garden, London: HQ, HarperCollins, →ISBN

   Synonyms: chronic Covid, chronic COVID syndrome, long-haul COVID, long-tail Covid, long-term Covid, ongoing covid, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, post Covid

2. broadlyinformaluncountableeconomicsLong-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic.

   2021, Chenyan Lyu, Tooraj Jamasb, Jan Peter Georg Spanholtz, The Long Covid of Energy Markets and Prices [See title.]