Long COVID patients may need long-term medical and allied care to restore body functions. Clear diagnostic criteria facilitate access to interventions and services that support social engagement and physical functions.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Long COVID has not been studied enough and people are not able to understand who with what symptoms can be defined as a patient with Long COVID disability. Clear clinical diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 can benefit patients with disabling sytmptoms in at least three ways:

Clear Diagnostic Criteria on COVID-19 

 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-069868 (Published 01 August 2022) https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-069868

Long covid and disability: a brave new world

Standardlizing Healthcare Providing

Clear diagnostic criteria will reduce uncertainty and validate the experience of long COVID patients, including those who were not able to test at the time of persumed infection. 

Help with Further Research

Clear diagnostic criteria can support long COVID and become part of legal recognition of disability through acts in a different country such as the Americans with Disabilities Act in the U.S. and the Equality Act 2010 in the U.K.

Help with Long COVID legistration 

- Access to unemployment or other benefits
- Modifications to work duties or schedule
- Allowances for remote working when symptoms are severe 
- Flexible attendance and modified activities for students with brain fog 
- Increasing training, availability, and funding for home care aides for families in order to help patients that are care givers and primary earners 

Learn Before

Related