There’s no good lab test to spot long COVID
Health Day: Grace McComsey, professor and vice dean of clinical and translational research at the School of Medicine, discussed “long COVID” symptoms, a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection, which can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. “Until a reliable biomarker is found, the best diagnostic modality… remains the old-fashioned history-taking and clinical assessment,” she said.