Long COVID: The Problem Society Wants to Forget

Derek C. Angus; Matthew B. O’Connor

doi:10.1001/jama.2026.18939

September 23, 2026JAMA

Long COVID: The Problem Society Wants to Forget

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Examine the diagnostic complexities and clinical management hurdles associated with long COVID.
Clinical discussion and expert commentary conducted via the JAMA Healthy Dialogue podcast featuring medical and clinical research leadership.
Highlights the ongoing difficulty clinicians face in establishing a consistent, standardized diagnostic definition for long COVID.
Identifies substantial systemic and clinical barriers to providing multidisciplinary, long-term medical care for affected individuals.

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A podcast discussion highlighting the challenges in defining and managing patients with Long COVID.

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Long COVID, including the difficulty in defining it and caring for patients experiencing it, is discussed by JAMA Senior Editor Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, and E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, for this episode of the Healthy Dialogue podcast.

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