Although many patients recover from Covid-19 relatively quickly, clinicians observed a few cases where people take much longer to heal or do not improve at all. These are known as “long haulers” and have been documented extensively even after they are “disease” free.
COVID first reared its ugly head in 2019 and it has taken over a year for medical professionals to recognized long haulers as a real problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now tracking this unfortunate phenomenon and uses “post-COVID conditions” to cover health consequences that are present four weeks or more after infection.