"long COVID" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌlɔŋ ˈkoʊvɪd/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-long COVID.oga [General-American]
Rhymes: -əʊvɪd 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. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|long-term|COVID}} Blend of long-term + COVID, {{coinage|en|Elisa Perego|nobycat=1|nocap=1|w=-}} coined by Elisa Perego Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} long COVID (uncountable)
  1. (pathology) 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extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Diseases, Coronavirus, Viral diseases Translations (long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection): Covid-i kronik (Albanian), COVID iraunkor (Basque), COVID-19 persistent (Catalan), 長期新冠 (Chinese Mandarin), 长期新冠 (chángqī xīnguān) (Chinese Mandarin), dlouhý covid [inanimate, masculine] (Czech), senfølger af COVID-19 (Danish), long covid [feminine] (Dutch), pitkä korona (Finnish), Covid long [masculine] (French), ხანგრძლივი კოვიდი (xangrʒlivi ḳovidi) (Georgian), გრძელვადიანი კოვიდი (grʒelvadiani ḳovidi) (Georgian), Long COVID [feminine, neuter] (German), μακροχρόνια COVID-19 (makrochrónia COVID-19) [feminine] (Greek), sindrome post-COVID-19 [feminine] (Italian), постко́виден си́ндром (postkóviden síndrom) [masculine] (Macedonian), постко́виден синдро́м (postkóviden sindróm) [masculine] (Macedonian), COVIDa dirêj [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), koronaya dirêj [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), senfølger av COVID-19 (Norwegian Bokmål), długi COVID [masculine] (Polish), COVID-19 persistente [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), постковидный синдром (postkovidnyj sindrom) [masculine] (Russian), dolgi covid (Slovene), dolgotrajni covid (Slovene), COVID-19 persistente [feminine] (Spanish), postcovid (Swedish), uzun COVID (Turkish), постковідний синдром (postkovidnyj syndrom) (Ukrainian), COVID hir [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-long_COVID-en-noun-mxRExiln Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 65 35 Disambiguation of Viral diseases: 59 41 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English blends: 65 35 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 71 29 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Synonyms: chronic Covid, chronic COVID syndrome, long-haul COVID, long-tail Covid, long-term Covid, ongoing covid, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, post Covid, post-COVID-19 condition, post-COVID-19 syndrome, post-COVID syndrome Disambiguation of 'long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection': 78 22
  2. (economics, informal, by extension) Long-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic. Tags: broadly, informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Economics
    Sense id: en-long_COVID-en-noun--~vslSkN Topics: economics, science, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: long covid, long Covid Related terms: long-hauler, long vax

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    "Rhymes:English/əʊvɪd/3 syllables",
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Elisa Perego",
        "nobycat": "1",
        "nocap": "1",
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      "expansion": "coined by Elisa Perego",
      "name": "coinage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
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      "expansion": "long COVID (uncountable)",
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    }
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    "long"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "long-hauler"
    },
    {
      "word": "long vax"
    }
  ],
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Diseases"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2020 May 15, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-05-15",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[2020 May 21, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-07-27",
          "text": "The #LongCovid #COVID19 is starting to be addressed on major newspapers in Italy 🇮🇹 too:[…]]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 8, Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, “Oral Evidence: Social Care: Funding and Workforce, HC 206”, in UK Parliament: Committees (Health and Social Care Select Committee, House of Commons of the United Kingdom), London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 2022-10-27, question 185",
          "text": "There is also absolutely no doubt of the severity of the consequences of long Covid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January, Felicity Callard, Elisa Perego, “How and Why Patients Made Long Covid”, in Ichiro Kawachi, S. V. Subramanian, editors, Social Science & Medicine, volume 268, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, article number 113426, page 2, column 1",
          "text": "There are strong reasons to argue that Long Covid is the first illness to be made through patients finding one another on Twitter and other social media. Both of us have Long Covid and have contributed to making it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 1, “English Study Finds Long COVID Affects up to 1 in 7 Children Months after Infection”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-18",
          "text": "As many as 1 in 7 children may have symptoms linked to the coronavirus months after testing positive for COVID-19, the authors of an English study on long COVID in adolescents said on Wednesday. Children rarely become severely ill with COVID-19 but they can suffer lingering symptoms, and the study is one of the largest of its kind on how common so-called long COVID is in the age group.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Nicola Cornick, “Lucy”, in The Winter Garden, London: HQ, HarperCollins",
          "text": "Her consultant had been matter of fact: 'Post-viral fatigue,' he had said briskly. 'We see a lot of it after the flu, or viral pneumonia like yours …' he'd shrugged, 'it's similar to long COVID, that tail of symptoms that carry on after the initial infection has gone. I'll prescribe you some steroid treatment, but you need to rest.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 17, “Omicron Less Likely to Cause Long COVID: UK Study”, in CNA, Singapore, archived from the original on 2022-06-17",
          "text": "The Omicron variant of coronavirus is less likely to cause long COVID than previous variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind from the United Kingdom. Researchers at King's College London, using data from the ZOE COVID Symptom Study app, found that the odds of developing long COVID after infection were 20 per cent to 50 per cent lower during the Omicron wave in the United Kingdom compared to Delta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Don Goldenberg, Marc Dichter, “The Way Forward: For Patients, Healthcare Providers, and Research”, in Unravelling Long COVID, Hoboken, N.J., Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, page 192",
          "text": "We believe that, whenever possible, long-COVID therapy should be initiated in a specialty center and evaluated as part of a collaborative, controlled, clinical trial. Every healthcare provider must familiarize themselves with long COVID. If just 5% of patients have symptoms for more than two months following COVID-19, then about 7 million people in the United States are currently suffering from long COVID.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pathology",
          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "Long-term",
          "long-term"
        ],
        [
          "sequela",
          "sequela"
        ],
        [
          "symptom",
          "symptom"
        ],
        [
          "brain fog",
          "brain fog"
        ],
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "fatigue",
          "fatigue#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "shortness of breath",
          "shortness of breath"
        ],
        [
          "COVID-19",
          "COVID-19"
        ],
        [
          "infection",
          "infection"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "SARS-CoV-2",
          "SARS-CoV-2"
        ],
        [
          "virus",
          "virus"
        ],
        [
          "active",
          "active#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
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        "(pathology) 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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chronic Covid"
        },
        {
          "word": "chronic COVID syndrome"
        },
        {
          "word": "long-haul COVID"
        },
        {
          "word": "long-tail Covid"
        },
        {
          "word": "long-term Covid"
        },
        {
          "word": "ongoing covid"
        },
        {
          "word": "post-acute sequelae of COVID-19"
        },
        {
          "word": "post Covid"
        },
        {
          "word": "post-COVID-19 condition"
        },
        {
          "word": "post-COVID-19 syndrome"
        },
        {
          "word": "post-COVID syndrome"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pathology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "en:Economics"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "2021, Chenyan Lyu, Tooraj Jamasb, Jan Peter Georg Spanholtz, The Long Covid of Energy Markets and Prices\n[See title.]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Long-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "negative",
          "negative"
        ],
        [
          "economic",
          "economic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics, informal, by extension) Long-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɔŋ ˈkoʊvɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊvɪd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-long COVID.oga",
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "long covid"
    },
    {
      "word": "long Covid"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "Covid-i kronik"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "COVID iraunkor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "COVID-19 persistent"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "長期新冠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chángqī xīnguān",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "长期新冠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dlouhý covid"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "senfølger af COVID-19"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "long covid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "pitkä korona"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Covid long"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "xangrʒlivi ḳovidi",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "ხანგრძლივი კოვიდი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "grʒelvadiani ḳovidi",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "გრძელვადიანი კოვიდი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Long COVID"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "makrochrónia COVID-19",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μακροχρόνια COVID-19"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sindrome post-COVID-19"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "COVIDa dirêj"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "koronaya dirêj"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "postkóviden síndrom",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "постко́виден си́ндром"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "postkóviden sindróm",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "постко́виден синдро́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "senfølger av COVID-19"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "długi COVID"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "COVID-19 persistente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postkovidnyj sindrom",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "постковидный синдром"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "dolgi covid"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "dolgotrajni covid"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "COVID-19 persistente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "postcovid"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "uzun COVID"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "postkovidnyj syndrom",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "word": "постковідний синдром"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "long-term sequelae or symptoms following a COVID-19 infection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "COVID hir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "long COVID"
}

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