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When Ed Hornick first came down with COVID-19 symptoms last January, he assumed that one day he’d feel better. But a year later, like millions of others who contracted the virus, he’s still sick. This torturous cycle of debilitating brain fog, fatigue and muscle pain — which Hornick, a senior editor at Yahoo News, recently wrote about — has been referred to by mostly informal names thus far, such as “long COVID.”
But during a press conference Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, finally referred to it by an official name: PASC. “Many of you are now aware of what had long been called ‘long COVID’ but actually, what that really is is post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which we’re now referring to as ‘PASC,'” Fauci said. Continue reading “Long-term effects of COVID-19 given name by experts, Fauci”