What do infectious disease specialists think about managing long COVID?

Maureen D Lyons; Susan E Beekmann; Philip M Polgreen; Jonas Marschall

doi:10.1017/ash.2023.519

What do infectious disease specialists think about managing long COVID?

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Dec 14;3(1):e236. doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.519. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Maureen D Lyons^{1

2}, Susan E Beekmann³, Philip M Polgreen³, Jonas Marschall⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, School of Medicine, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
³ Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

Abstract

This survey of infectious disease providers on long COVID care revealed a lack of familiarity with existing resources, a sentiment of missing guidelines, and scarcity of dedicated care centers. The low response rate suggests that infectious disease specialists do not consider themselves as the primary providers of long COVID care.

Grants and funding

P30 DK054759/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States