How to Use long COVID in a Sentence

long COVID

noun

• As a person with long COVID, getting out had been all but impossible for her for the last five years.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
• Toews then was forced into a two-year hiatus from hockey due to CIRS and long COVID.
  — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
• That includes linking the vaccines to a syndrome that causes symptoms similar to long COVID.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
• Many fellow long COVID advocates have shared this experience.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
• There is also a severe shortage of long COVID treatment clinics, with far too few to meet the demand for specialized treatment.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• There is no reliable data for county long COVID cases, nor for the number of people disabled by the condition.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026
• Currently, there are no effective cures for long COVID, and treatment entails trying to manage the symptoms as best as possible.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• This is likely still a conservative estimate, since many who developed long COVID five to six years ago have continued to have symptoms with no clear end in sight.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Andrew Wylam Andrew Wylam found himself on the front lines of a new crisis when long COVID emerged as a severe and disabling disease.
  — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Andrew Wylam Andrew Wylam found himself on the front lines of a new crisis when long COVID emerged as a severe and disabling disease.
  — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
• Autistic people may also be more likely to experience long COVID, where reviews suggest that good nutrition can reduce symptoms.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Others develop neurodivergences because of things like traumatic head injuries or long COVID.
  — Ayana Archie, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
• Researchers continue to use this data to track long COVID, a condition that health professionals still don’t completely understand.
  — Jill Inderstrodt, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
• Headlines on long COVID have become much more rare than during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Symptoms like long COVID were recognized as far back as the 1890s in Russia during an influenza outbreak, Brode said.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
• Similarly, rates of new long COVID diagnoses have slowed since the early days of the pandemic, but new infections continue to trigger the lingering and disabling syndrome.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
• People who have had very serious COVID infections have a greater chance of developing long COVID, Brode said.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
• But to meet the needs of patients with diseases such as fibromyalgia, IBS, chronic fatigue syndrome, and long COVID, medicine will need to loosen its reliance on the magic-bullet model.
  — Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• Living with long COVID Long COVID is often very debilitating, Walkes said.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
• In addition, evidence suggests that long COVID is underdiagnosed and underreported.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Even people who develop a mild infection are vulnerable to the lingering and sometimes debilitating constellation of symptoms dubbed long COVID.
  — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
• Researchers have looked extensively at SARS-CoV-2’s impact on disease risk and the health implications of long COVID.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
• In 2021, Emma Samms gathered the stars once again for a virtual fundraiser benefitting long COVID research ahead of the show’s 40th anniversary.
  — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• But some healthy people still want to get vaccinated to reduce their risk of getting sick at all, missing work or school, developing long COVID or spreading the virus to vulnerable people, such as older family members and friends with other health issues.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
• Studies have suggested that somewhere between 6%-20% of people with COVID-19 will go on to develop long COVID.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• There is currently no clear national strategy on how to manage long COVID going forward or COVID-19 in general, for that matter.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Her direction in precision health equity and long COVID recovery reveals a rare fluency in both community accountability and scientific rigor.
  — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• The same year, the National Institutes of Health terminated various funding initiatives for studying potential pathways to and treatments for long COVID.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Researchers are planning additional trials to examine whether vitamin D supplementation may help treat people already experiencing long COVID.
  — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 15 Mar. 2026
• Hawkinson pointed to research which shows that even for otherwise healthy individuals, the vaccine can help prevent getting COVID, becoming seriously ill and contracting long COVID.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025