Medical Economics June 12, 2024
Richard Payerchin

National Academy of Medicine proposes a standard way to discuss ‘a widespread, poorly understood medical condition.’

After tremendous effects on the health of people and society, many physicians and patients are happy the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.

But for some patients, health problems from the pandemic still linger. For all the physical symptoms and conditions, there are various schools of thought about how medicine, science and society should define long COVID.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published its new report listing the characteristics of “an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after COVID-19 infection and is present for at least three months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that...

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