long covid

noun
/ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd/UK/ˌlɔŋ ˈkoʊvɪd/US

Etymology

Blend of long-term + COVID, coined by Elisa Perego, an archaeologist working in London and sufferer of the condition who used the term in tweets on the online social networking service Twitter as a hashtag and in running text in May 2020 (see the quotations), leading to its widespread use.

  1. borrowed from covado
  2. compounded as long covid — “long-term + COVID

Definitions

  1. Alternative 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.
  2. Long-term sequelae or symptoms (such as brain fog, extreme fatigue, or shortness of…

    Long-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extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.

    • 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.
    • The #LongCovid #COVID19 is starting to be addressed on major newspapers in Italy 🇮🇹 too:[…]
    • There is also absolutely no doubt of the severity of the consequences of long Covid.
  3. Long-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.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for long covid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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