11/10/2026
JAMA/Journal of the American Medical Association:
Long COVID - The Problem Society Wants to Forget
Long COVID is a debilitating condition impacting millions of people around the world, but is still poorly understood, poorly defined, and poorly treated.
In this episode of Healthy Dialogue, host Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, discusses long COVID with Wes Ely, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, and co-author of the NASEM report on Long COVID.
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Society has largely put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, both because the acute crisis has subsided and because, frankly, it was a scarring experience.
However, for many millions of people around the world, their COVID-19 experience continues as they live with the health consequences of long COVID, manifesting as an array of protracted and debilitating symptoms that disrupt work, relationships, and daily life.
Long COVID remains poorly understood, poorly defined, and poorly treated, with many patients feeling forgotten and isolated by society and the health care system.
In this episode of Healthy Dialogue, E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and coauthor of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) reports on long COVID.2
The presenters discuss what Long Covid is, why it has been so difficult to define, and what it will take to better care for the people affected by it.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2854450
Dr Charles Shepherd
Hon Medical Adviser MEA.
Long COVID, including the difficulty in defining it and caring for patients experiencing it, is discussed by JAMA Senior Editor Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, and E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, for this episode of the Healthy Dialogue podcast.
