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UVM pulmonologist outlines long COVID symptoms, diagnostic challenges and limited treatment evidence
Summary
Dr. Catherine Minson of UVM told the Senate Health and Welfare committee that long COVID can follow even mild infections, is defined variably by agencies, and centers on post-exertional malaise; she urged clinician education and noted NIH RECOVER research but said many therapies lack robust evidence.
Dr. Catherine Minson, assistant professor of pulmonology and critical care at the University of Vermont, told the Senate Health and Welfare committee that long COVID can follow mild or moderate acute infections and is defined differently by public-health bodies.
“The CDC recognizes long COVID as being after greater than 4 weeks after acute illness,” Minson said, while other organizations use longer timelines. She emphasized that symptoms “can be regardless of how acute the initial infection was” and that a key feature for many patients is post-exertional malaise (PEM), a condition in which activity —…
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