Long COVID

Getting, feeling, and staying sick

What is Long COVID?

The National Academies assembled a committee of experts to produce a consensus definition for Long COVID. The resulting report, “A Long COVID Definition: A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences,” presents the 2024 NASEM Long COVID Definition based on the existing literature and input from people with the lived experience and other stakeholders.

Long COVID is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection and is present for at least 3 months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.

Learn more and access the full report at nationalacademies.org/long-covid-definition.

How does one get Long COVID?

Scientists are using the term post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) to study the potential consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. More commonly, PASC is called Long COVID or Post COVID.

What does Long COVID feel like?

These and other symptoms have been reported by people with Long COVID.

Who gets
Long COVID?

While many people are suffering the long term effects of Long COVID, racial and ethnic minority groups have been hardest hit.

Source: CDC COVID Data Tracker