Long COVID-19

Becki Fahs is a RN with a diverse background including Emergency, Labor and Delivery, Community Health, Behavioral Health and IDD. She has been at the HCQU for over 13 years, and offers consultation, support and education surrounding physical and mental health topics. Her areas of specialty include dual diagnosis (IDD and mental health), safe relationships and abuse prevention, trauma informed care, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Although most people with COVID-19 get better within weeks of illness, some people experience post-COVID conditions. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Even people who did not have COVID-19 symptoms in the days or weeks after they were infected can have post-COVID conditions. These conditions can have different types and combinations of health problems for different lengths of time.

 

These post-COVID conditions may also be known as long COVID, long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, long-term effects of COVID, or chronic COVID. CDC and experts around the world are working to learn more about short- and long-term health effects associated with COVID-19, who gets them, and why.