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Long COVID
Long COVID, also known as Long-haul COVID and Long-term COVID, refers to the effects of COVID-19 that continue for months after the initial illness.
Resources
- Long COVID FAQs for family physicians – OCFP, April 1, 2021
- Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care – Trisha Greenhalgh et al, BMJ, August 2020
- Long COVID in primary care (a visual summary) – BMJ, August 2020
- Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CANCOV)
- Post-acute COVDI-19 Syndrome – Nature Medicine, March 2021
- Timeline of post-acute COVID-19 (pictorial summary of symptoms observed) – Nature Medicine, March 2021
Patient Resources
- COVID-19 Long-Haulers Support Group of Canada
- Covid-19 Long Haulers Facebook Group
- Access to Resources in the Community (ARC) (Eastern Ontario – North Dundas and Merrickville only) Bruyère Research Institute
Emerging Evidence
- Characterizing Long COVID in an International Cohort: 7 Months of Symptoms and Their Impact – Davis et al (Symptoms and timeline)
- Developing services for long COVID: lessons from a study of wounded healers – RCP Clinical Medicine Journal
- Persistent Symptoms in Patients After Acute COVID-19 – JAMA Research Letter, July 2020
- Mapping how COVID-19 impacts the health of multiple organs (COVERSCAN study)
- COVID-19 is, in the end, an endothelial disease – European Heart Journal, Sept. 2020
- Care Dependency in Non-Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 – Journal of Clinical Medicine, Sept. 2020