long COVID

NBC 7’s Mark Mullen spoke to a doctor about the goal of the study.

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego have joined a nationwide study intended to better understand the long-term impact of COVID-19, it was announced Friday.

Getting COVID-19 two or three times is not unheard of, and those who do are more likely to have serious long term health problems, according to a recent study.

A Connecticut cancer patient had COVID-19 for at least 471 days and evolved three distinct lineages of the virus in their bloodstream, a new study says.

The White House also acknowledged that long COVID appears to be a disability, meaning that patients could be entitled to the protection of federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on health conditions.

Nearly two years after getting COVID-19, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine says he still has mild symptoms

It appears the coronavirus can leave patients at risk for heart problems for at least one year following infection, according to one of the largest analyses of post-Covid health effects to date.

Experts say it’s too early to know whether people infected with the omicron variant will develop long COVID

A blood test may someday help determine a person’s risk for long Covid, new research suggests. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found that people who go on to develop long Covid have lower levels of certain antibodies in their blood soon after they are infected with the coronavirus. If confirmed through larger studies, the findings could...

While emerging research suggests the new variant may be less likely to lead to severe disease, those who have long COVID say they desperately want to avoid reinfection.

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that serious long-term COVID-19 cases could qualify as a disability, making federal protections and resources available to those suffering from the disease.