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Long COVID Definition - Online Public Comment Portal

Call for Public Comment

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee is conducting a series of stakeholder engagement activities to examine the current U.S. Government (USG) working definition for Long COVID and related technical terms. The stakeholder engagement process is being conducted for the purpose of gathering a diverse and informed range of perspectives, experience, and expertise from key stakeholders to help inform refinements to the U.S. Government’s current working definition of Long COVID and related technical terms.

Read more about the project here. 

Interim Working Definition: Long COVID is broadly defined as signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after initial COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection. The signs, symptoms, and conditions are present four weeks or more after the initial phase of infection; may be multisystemic; and may present with a relapsing–remitting pattern and progression or worsening over time, with the possibility of severe and life-threatening events even months or years after infection. Long COVID is not one condition. It represents many potentially overlapping entities, likely with different biological causes and different sets of risk factors and outcomes.

This Online Public Comment Portal will be available from April 10, 2023 – June 12, 2023, for public comments and resource submissions to the Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID about the current interim definition. 

All written materials provided for consideration by the committee may be listed in the committee's Public Access File (PAF).
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