Long COVID, also called post-COVID condition (PCC), is defined as the continuation or development of new symptoms three months after initial COVID infection, with those symptoms lasting at least two months with no other cause found.
Long COVID can affect a person of any age infected with any severity of the disease.
A Mix of Many Different Conditions
It’s important to understand that long COVID is a mix of many different conditions, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, a board-certified internist and nationally known expert in the fields of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, sleep, and pain, told The Epoch Times.
“If somebody had a stroke, heart attack, loss of smell, or post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome after COVID,” he explained, “these are all being lumped together under the long-COVID diagnosis.”…