Toward Understanding COVID-19 Recovery: National Institutes of Health Workshop on Postacute COVID-19

Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jul;174(7):999-1003. doi: 10.7326/M21-1043. Epub 2021 Mar 30.

Abstract

Over the past year, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has swept the globe, resulting in an enormous worldwide burden of infection and mortality. However, the additional toll resulting from long-term consequences of the pandemic has yet to be tallied. Heterogeneous disease manifestations and syndromes are now recognized among some persons after their initial recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection, representing in the broadest sense a failure to return to a baseline state of health after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. On 3 to 4 December 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with other Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health, convened a virtual workshop to summarize existing knowledge on postacute COVID-19 and to identify key knowledge gaps regarding this condition.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)*
  • Pandemics*
  • SARS-CoV-2*
  • United States / epidemiology