long COVID
Long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the…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extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)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extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.
Long COVID
постковидный синдромpostkovidnyj sindrom
постковідний синдромpostkovidnyj syndrom
(broadly, informal, uncountable)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.]
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Origin
Blend of long-term + COVID, coined by Elisa Perego, an archaeologist working in London andBlend 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.
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