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  "path": "/2026/03/long-covid-awareness-day/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T23:48:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "COVID",
    "LongCovid",
    "LongCovidAwareness",
    "LongCovidHeartbeats",
    "Long Covid Awareness Day",
    "What Is Long Covid? International Long Covid Awareness",
    "community and patient-driven",
    "A Long COVID Definition: A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences",
    "A clinical case definition of post COVID-19 condition by a Delphi consensus, 6 October 2021",
    "Julia Doubleday",
    "The Gauntlet",
    "What is Long Covid?",
    "Kelly",
    "Long Covid Awareness Day 2026",
    "Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA",
    "Covid-19 Data Dashboard",
    "Dr. Lucky Tran",
    "Babs",
    "last year’s Long Covid Awareness Day",
    "Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens",
    "Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19",
    "World Health Network’s Long Covid blog posts",
    "Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID)",
    "CDC: Long COVID Basics",
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  "textContent": "March 15 is Long Covid Awareness Day.\n\n> “Long Covid is a multi-systemic disease following a COVID infection, this includes severe, mild, or asymptomatic infections. Long Covid can occur in young and healthy people, including children.\n>\n> The wide range of symptoms and conditions caused by Long Covid can last for weeks, months, or years.\n>\n> There are currently no proven treatments or cures for Long COVID.​”\n>\n> — What Is Long Covid? International Long Covid Awareness\n\nIf there were two things I wish people would understand about Long Covid, they would be:\n\n  1. People are at risk of Long Covid after each infection, regardless of how “mild” the symptoms were. That risk is cumulative; each infection increases the risk.\n  2. The research is young. Since there are a variety of symptoms and no tests/treatment currently, the best way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid infections.\n\n\n\nAs always, I recommend a layered approach to prevention: wear high-quality respirators, clean the air, and stay up-to-date on your vaccinations, if possible.\n\n### Additional Information\n\n**Definition of Long Covid:**\n\n  * The ILCA is working on a community and patient-driven definition of Long Covid, to be announced later this month\n  * A Long COVID Definition: A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences from National Academies of Sciences\n  * A clinical case definition of post COVID-19 condition by a Delphi consensus, 6 October 2021 from The World Health Organization\n\n\n\n**Advocates and Communicators:**\n\n  * Julia Doubleday: has Long Covid and writes The Gauntlet newsletter sharing public health information and commentary. Check out her What is Long Covid? post.\n  * Kelly: disabled and chronically ill writer. Check out her Long Covid Awareness Day 2026 post.\n  * Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA: Runs the great Covid-19 Data Dashboard tracking wastewater data in the US and estimating the spread\n  * Dr. Lucky Tran: Scientist, science communicator, public health and climate justice advocate\n  * Babs on Bluesky and TikTok. Check out her thread from last year’s Long Covid Awareness Day\n\n\n\n**Research:**\n\n  * Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.1415\n\n> “Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.”\n\n  * Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19\n\n> “As seen in Chart 2, Canadians reporting two known or suspected COVID-19 infections (25.4%) were 1.7 times more likely to report prolonged symptoms than those reporting only one known or suspected infection (14.6%), and those with 3 or more infections (37.9%) 2.6 times more likely.”\n\n\n\n\n**General:**\n\n  * World Health Network’s Long Covid blog posts\n  * Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID) from the World Health Organization\n  * CDC: Long COVID Basics  As compromised as the Department of Health and Human Services is under this regime, this page is still _currently_ a good summary from what I can tell.\n  * Wikipedia: Long Covid\n\nImage from https://www.longcovidawareness.life/graphics\n\nPreviously",
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