Long COVID: a new word for naming fibromyalgia?

In conclusion, "to name is to soothe" as said by Roland Barthes. However, "Naming things wrongly adds to the world's unhappiness" was saying Albert Camus. Thus, the term of long COVID, which suggests viral persistence of impaired immune response to the virus, is unappropriated and should be replaced by fibromyalgia-like post-COVID syndrome. Research on the psychosomatic and somatic mechanisms involved in these fibromyalgia-like post-viral syndromes must be encouraged.
Source: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - Category: Rheumatology Authors: Tags: ARD, COVID-19 Viewpoint Source Type: research