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COVID ‐19: long covid and its societal consequences
Author(s) -
Brüssow Harald,
Timmis Kenneth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.954
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1462-2920
pISSN - 1462-2912
DOI - 10.1111/1462-2920.15634
Subject(s) - covid-19 , biology , asymptomatic , pandemic , virology , intensive care medicine , disease , pathology , outbreak , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Summary COVID‐19 is an acute, highly transmissible respiratory infection that is potentially lethal, but often mild, sometimes asymptomatic, especially in the young. However, it has become clear that, in some patients, there may be sequelae involving tissues other than the lung, resulting in other types of morbidity, and sometimes longer term consequences that are often termed ‘long covid’. In this Lilliput, we summarize recent findings about COVID‐19 sequelae, with a particular focus on long covid. We also discuss some of the long scars that COVID‐19 and long covid will collectively leave on society that we term Societal Long Covid .