American Psychological Association: A new definition of Long COVID

A new definition of Long COVID
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/03/definition-long-covid

Key points

• The National Academies has released a formal definition of Long COVID that outlines key points about the condition and its severity and includes explicit examples of common symptoms.
• All psychologists should be screening for Long COVID, especially because treating issues such as depression and anxiety will differ in patients with a chronic health condition.
• Research shows that helping patients manage depression and anxiety is helpful in treating Long COVID as a whole.

 

Something like this may have been meaningful if published in 2021. The "new definition" is from the NASEM report, discussed here. While the report may be recent, from this year, it did not bring much information that wasn't known when 2021 rolled on, although it did confirm it. But reading this article leaves out so much.

The article has some valuable bits, mostly repeating from the NASEM report, but is itself very confused about the nature and quality of what is offered instead of medical care for LC. It repeats the same debunked tropes about rehabilitation and how a mental health focused approach somehow treats LC, which is not at all true and is not backed by any evidence.

Hey, at least it's not all wrong, but what it gets right mostly reinforces what is wrong. It pretty much packages all the tropes at once. All of them. Including brain retraining for brain fog, CBT and so on. It at least manages to not advise for exercise, but promoting rehabilitation is basically the same. Of course zero mention of PEM, the issue with exertion, the fact that this has been a controversially denied issue for decades and so on.

Stuff like this is just delusional:

Sure, in late 2020 or early 2021 that may not be laughably wrong. But by now it's been laughably wrong for years. 5 years and even the best they can do is so completely inadequate that you can't even consider this a serious effort.