The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has published a website on Long COVID, you can find it here.
Is there a shared definition for diagnosing Long COVID? Yes. In 2024 the National Academies of Science established a Long COVID definition as a chronic, systemic disease state with profound consequences. Information on the Long COVID definition here.
Listing January 21, 2024. This is not an extensive list, it is an evolving one.
STATE HOUSE BRIEFINGS
Long COVID & Health Equity in the Commonwealth, Part 1: What We Know and What Don’t Know
January 30, 2024
— Slide Presentation, January 30, 2024
— Recording, January 30, 2024
Long COVID & Health Equity in the Commonwealth, Part 2: Moving to Policy Solutions
June 25, 2024
— Slide Presentation, June 25, 2024
— Recording
BASIC INFORMATION
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Long COVID Resources
Yale Medical School – What happens when you still have Long COVID symptoms?
Yale Medical School – Facts About Long COVID
New York State Department of Health on Long COVID
Minnesota Department of Health Long COVID Resources and Support
U.S. Senate Hearing on Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care, January 18, 2024
New York State Department of Health
National Academy of Science “Examing the Working Definition for Long COVID”
National Academies of Science “Long Term Health Effects Stemming from COVID-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration
The UK National Health Service “Long Term Effects of COVID”
DEFINING LONG COVID
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Toward a Deeper Understanding of Long COVID
NIH https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/toward-deeper-understanding-long-covid
NYU RECOVER Study Offers Expanded Working Definition of Long COVID
COURSE OF ILLNESS/CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
YALE, “What Happens When You Still Have Long COVID Symptoms?”
“Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid”
New York Times Opinion: My Life with Long COVID
New York Times, “Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog”
New York Times, How Viral Infections Cause Long-Term Health Problems
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
New York Times, Long COVID Poses Special Challenges for Seniors
New York Times, “Reporting on Long COVID Taught Me to be a Better Journalist”
MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS OF LONG COVID
Washington Post, 3/27/25, Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Boston Globe, Long COVID patients aim to educate doctors about their disease
Boston Globe, “As long COVID turns three, Americans play disability roulette”
Boston Globe Opinion, “TREAT long COVID bill would ensure US doesn’t leave long haulers behind”
RISK REDUCTION
Scientific American, Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Risk
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
New York Magaziune, “My Unraveling. I had my health. I had a job. And then, abruptly, I didn’t.”