Toward Understanding COVID-19 Recovery: National Institutes of Health Workshop on Postacute COVID-19
Andrea Lerner, D Robinson, Linda Yang, Carolyn Williams, Lori M. Newman, Joseph J. Breen, Robert W. Eisinger, Johanna Sophie Schneider, Adaora A. Adimora, Emily J. Erbelding
Abstract
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.