Commentary: Internal medicine at the crossroads of long COVID diagnosis and management

Keywords biomedical evidence , clinical uncertainty , epistemic humility , long Covid , patient harm , post-acute infection syndromes , psychologization , reflexivity Citation Spanoghe M, Molmans THJ, Antonacci T, Burel E, Herschke F, Schneider N, Oustric P, Thielemans P, Nicolas J-B, Dauby N, Nicaise C, Van Weyenbergh J and Jamoulle M (2026) Commentary: Internal medicine at the crossroads of long COVID diagnosis and management . Front. Med. 13:1798119. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2026.1798119 Received 28 January 2026 Revised 16 March 2026 Accepted 17 March 2026 Published 15 April 2026 Volume 13 - 2026 Edited by Shisan Bao , The University of Sydney, Australia Reviewed by Niken Setyaningrum , STIKES Surya Global, Indonesia Updates Check for updates Copyright © 2026 Spanoghe, Molmans, Antonacci, Burel, Herschke, Schneider, Oustric, Thielemans, Nicolas, Dauby, Nicaise, Van Weyenbergh and Jamoulle. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. * Correspondence: Martin Spanoghe, martin.spanoghe@condorcet.be †These authors have contributed equally to this work Disclaimer All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.