How COVID-19 Changes the Heart—Even After the Virus Is Gone

Mon, February 13, 2023 at 11:00 AM

How COVID-19 Changes the Heart—Even After the Virus Is Gone

Katherine J. Wu

2/13/2023

This emergency is not about to end.

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Long COVID still lacks a universal clinical definition and a standard diagnosis protocol; there’s no consensus on its prevalence, or even what symptoms fall under its purview. Although experts now agree that long COVID does not refer to a single illness, but rather is an umbrella term, like cancer, they disagree on the number of subtypes that fall within it