[HTML][HTML] Long COVID and health inequities: the role of primary care

Z Berger, VA De Jesus, SA Assoumou… - The Milbank …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Milbank Quarterly, 2021ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated health inequities in both acute coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its longer-term sequelae. 1–4 Symptoms of COVID-19 persist
in approximately one in 10 patients. 5 Acute symptoms include shortness of breath, cough,
myalgias, disturbances in the sense of taste and smell, fatigue, fever, chills, and, less
commonly, rhinitis and gastrointestinal symptoms. By contrast, the term “long COVID,”
coined by patients, refers to both postacute symptoms (lasting more than three weeks) and …
The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated health inequities in both acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its longer-term sequelae. 1–4 Symptoms of COVID-19 persist in approximately one in 10 patients. 5 Acute symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, myalgias, disturbances in the sense of taste and smell, fatigue, fever, chills, and, less commonly, rhinitis and gastrointestinal symptoms. By contrast, the term “long COVID,” coined by patients, refers to both postacute symptoms (lasting more than three weeks) and chronic symptoms (lasting more than 12 weeks). 6 Long COVID is a multisystem disease of unknown cause whose manifestations, while partially overlapping the acute presentation,
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