...Stephen L. Demeter, MD, MPH Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) infections began in late 2019/early 2020 and quickly achieved pandemic proportions. Of significance is that, while most individuals recover, some do not. Those who have...

...Stephen L. Demeter, MD, MPH The Centers for Disease Control has defined long COVID—or post–COVID-19 conditions—as a clinical syndrome reflecting a wide range of new, persistent, or recurring health problems experienced by individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...

...Joseph Hirsch, PhD, PsyD; Steven Mandel, MD; Les Kertay, PhD; James B. Talmage, MD; Greg Vanickachorn, MD; Kurt Hegmann, MD; James Underhill, PhD; John Meyers, PhD; Christopher R. Brigham, MD Post–severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19...

...Garson M. Caruso, MD, MPH, CLCP; Les Kertay, PhD; Christopher R. Brigham, MD, MMS Persistent symptoms, physical signs, and abnormal test results after acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness have emerged as a significant problem in the current and ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome...

... continues to evolve and reveal the psychological symptoms reported by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and psychosis have been reported in the literature for COVID-19 patients. Potential preliminary treatment recommendations include...

...James B. Talmage, MD; Mark H. Hyman, MD; Christopher R. Brigham, MD; Sarah H. Gulick, PsyD; Leslie Burton, PT Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may have persistent symptoms beyond the normally expected illness resolution. This disease was not diagnosed before late 2019...

...James B. Talmage, MD; Mark H. Hyman, MD; Robert B. Snyder, MD The current pandemic of COVID-19 cases includes cases identified in emergency medical technicians, nurses, physicians, and others with occupational exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Many of these health care professionals have filed...

...Robert B. Snyder, MD; James B. Talmage, MD The decision about whether a case of documented COVID-19 illness is accepted as occupationally acquired and thus work compensable is made by insurers, or if contested, by judges or administrative bureaus. Causation for COVID-19 may be difficult to show...

...Christopher R. Brigham, MD; Helene Fearon, PT; Steven Feinberg, MD; Barry Gelinas, MD, DC; David Langham, Esq; J. Mark Melhorn, MD Virtual independent medical evaluations (IMEs) have become and are likely to remain common even after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic ends, but virtual...

... “Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.” Suppose such a patient presents...

... disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the mental and behavioral health impact may well just have begun. The statement “There is no health without mental health” 2 may never have been more apt than now. Despite the high prevalence, burden of disease, and economic impact of mental and behavioral...

... is a 36-year-old, white male nurse who is 178 cm tall and weighs 140.6 kg. His BMI is 47.1: A 36-year-old white male nurse contracted COVID-19, allegedly resulting from workplace exposures. He developed severe respiratory distress and was admitted to the intensive care unit and placed on a ventilator...

...: the diagnostic gold standard for conditions, such as fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalitis from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (coronavirus disease [COVID-19]), symptom-magnification behavior, painful irritable bowel syndrome, etc, is “clinical judgement.” No objective tests exist...