![]() Jackson Laboratory Professor Peter Robinson, M.D., M.Sc., and Predoctoral Associate Ben Coleman have been investigating long COVID using EHR data from healthcare systems across the United States as part of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). The code allows patients to be formally diagnosed with long COVID by a physician and the diagnosis to be entered into electronic health record (EHR) systems. In part because of the significant case-by-case disparities, it took the clinical community time to recognize it as a specific condition, but a code was implemented ("Post-COVID-19 condition") for diagnosis on October 1, 2021. There is still no widely accepted case definition for long COVID, but it generally refers to a range of persistent or new symptoms that remain present more than four weeks after the initial infection. And as data accumulates, it appears that long COVID is a serious public health problem that will not go away any time soon. Like primary COVID-19, the affliction, known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) or long COVID, has highly variable duration, symptoms and severity.
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