"Long COVID" is the condition whereby affected individuals do not recover for several weeks or months following the onset of symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, whether tested or not.1 The name "long COVID" was created by the people experiencing it in Spring 2020 to describe their journeys of not recovering.2 Here, we offer a way to standardize its diagnosis through defining what constitutes initial infection with COVID-19.
Defining long COVID: Going back to the start