About the WNY Long COVID Resource Center
Continuing Education Mission
The Long COVID team who led the Long COVID Recovery Center are now dedicated to sharing the knowledge and insights gained through their patient care experience.
For several years during and after the pandemic, the center provided holistic, individualized clinical care to directly support patients experiencing the wide range of symptoms associated with Long COVID. Now our clinicians are dedicated to sharing with other providers the knowledge and insights that they gained through their patient care experience, including education, mental health resources and referrals to specialized rehabilitation services, including physical and occupational therapy, to promote recovery and functional improvement.
The Long COVID Resource Center is committed to helping educate other providers in order to help advance understanding of Long COVID and improve outcomes. This Center complements the Western New York Community-Based Long COVID connection, a resource for patients with Long COVID.
What is Long COVID?
Long Covid is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection and is present for at least 3 months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.
The term, post-COVID conditions, chronic COVID and long-haul COVID are other terms used to describe the wide range of symptoms and conditions that persist for longer than twelve weeks and can last months to years after initial COVID-19 infection.
Common symptoms of long COVID include but are not limited to:
- Fatigue
- Brain fog
- Difficulty thinking or concentrating
- Memory problems
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Sleep disturbance
- Malaise
- Joint pain
- Depressed mood
- Anxious mood
- Loss of taste or smell
