{"id":2584,"date":"2023-02-14T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:57","slug":"the-future-of-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/14\/the-future-of-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn\u2019t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most part, clinicians dismissed its symptoms, and researchers focused on SARS-CoV-2 infections\u2019 short-term effects. Now, as the pandemic approaches the end of its third winter in the Northern Hemisphere,\u00a0the chronic toll of the coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0is much more familiar. Long COVID has been acknowledged by prominent experts, national leaders, and the World Health Organization; the National Institutes of Health has set up a\u00a0billion-dollar research program<\/a>\u00a0to understand how and in whom its symptoms unfurl. Hundreds of\u00a0long-COVID clinics<\/a>\u00a0now freckle the American landscape, offering services in\u00a0nearly every state<\/a>; and\u00a0recent data hint<\/a>\u00a0that well-vetted drugs to\u00a0treat or prevent long COVID<\/a>\u00a0may someday be widespread. Long COVID and the people battling it are commanding more respect, says Hannah Davis, a co-founder of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, who has had long COVID for nearly three years: Finally, many people \u201cseem willing to understand.\u201d But for all the ground that\u2019s been gained, the road ahead is arduous. Long COVID still lacks a universal clinical definition and a standard diagnosis protocol; there\u2019s no consensus on\u00a0its<\/a>\u00a0prevalence<\/a>, or even what symptoms fall under its purview. Although experts now agree that\u00a0long COVID<\/em>\u00a0does not refer to a single illness, but rather is an umbrella term, like\u00a0cancer<\/em>, they disagree on the number of subtypes that fall within it and how, exactly, each might manifest. Some risk factors\u2014among them, a COVID hospitalization, female sex, and certain preexisting medical conditions\u2014have been identified, but researchers are\u00a0still trying to identify others<\/a>\u00a0amid fluctuating population immunity and the endless slog of viral variants. And for people who have long COVID now, or might develop it soon, the interventions are still scant. To this day, \u201cwhen someone asks me, \u2018How can I not get long COVID?\u2019 Continue reading at the link<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Atlantic) In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn\u2019t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most part, clinicians dismissed its symptoms, and researchers focused on SARS-CoV-2 infections\u2019 short-term effects. Now, as the pandemic approaches the end of its third winter in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-long-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}