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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Long COVID: A Real Condition That Needs More Study

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Las Vegas—The scenes of full ICUs and exhausted hospital staff are now a familiar sight as the coronavirus pandemic continues. While the short-term impacts of COVID-19 are well understood now, the effects of “long COVID-19”—marked by symptoms past the acute infection period—require additional study.

The paucity of studies on long COVID-19 was highlighted in a poster presented at PAINWeek 2021 (abstract 43). The review, titled “Long COVID-19 and Challenges to