long COVID

短语

长期新冠

发音

UK /ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd/
US /ˌlɔŋ ˈkoʊvɪd/

别名

long covid long Covid

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Long-term sequelae or symptoms (such as brain fog, extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.

    长期新冠

    不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    Long-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic.

    非正式 不可数 金融 引申义

    2021, Chenyan Lyu, Tooraj Jamasb, Jan Peter Georg Spanholtz, The Long Covid of Energy Markets and Prices [See title.]

词源

Blend of long-term + COVID, coined by Elisa Perego, an archaeologist working in London and sufferer of the condition who used the term in tweets on the online social networking service Twitter as a hashtag and in running text in May 2020 (see the quotations), leading to its widespread use.

来源：wiktionary