...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...

... 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 to a physician's office with these cognitive symptoms. In this case, a physician could...

... 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...