Open AccessToward Understanding COVID-19 Recovery: National Institutes of Health Workshop on Postacute COVID-19
Author(s) -
Andrea M Lerner,
Daniel M. Robinson,
Linda Yang,
Carolyn Williams,
Lori Newman,
J. J. Breen,
Robert W. Eisinger,
Judith C. Schneider,
Adaora A. Adimora,
Emily J. Erbelding
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.839
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1539-3704
pISSN - 0003-4819
DOI - 10.7326/m21-1043
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , toll , medline , death toll , intensive care medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , virology , immunology , pathology , outbreak , political science , law
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.