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Long COVID Symptom Checklist

Check any symptoms you're currently experiencing. Compiled from lists published by Stanford Health Care and the CDC. This is not a diagnostic tool — it's meant to help you organize what you're experiencing before a doctor's visit.

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NIH RECOVER explains why dizziness, heart rate problems, and other autonomic symptoms in Long COVID may need different explanations and different treatments.

COVID-19 and POTS: Is There a Link?
Dr. Christina Kokorelis, Johns Hopkins Medicine
March 26, 2026

A Johns Hopkins rehabilitation specialist explains how some people recovering from COVID-19 develop POTS, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system.

A new $1.35 million program at UCSF aims to validate the first clinically usable diagnostic tests for long COVID, addressing the field's lack of a reliable biomarker.

Clinical Overview of Long COVID
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
March 9, 2026

The CDC's clinician-facing definition of Long COVID as a chronic condition present at least three months post-infection, with possible causes and risk factors.

Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID)
World Health Organization (WHO)
February 26, 2025

WHO's official fact sheet on post COVID-19 condition, covering its 200+ possible symptoms and the formal clinical case definition used for diagnosis.

Long COVID: Lasting Effects of COVID-19
Mayo Clinic
August 23, 2024

Mayo Clinic's overview of the 200+ symptoms linked to long COVID and related diagnosable conditions like POTS, ME/CFS, and fibromyalgia.

Long COVID Brain Fog: What It Is and How to Manage It
Dr. Lindsay McAlpine, Yale Medicine
May 29, 2024

A Yale neurologist explains long COVID brain fog as persistent cognitive impairment and outlines exercise, medication, and pacing-based management strategies.

STAT News reports on an NEJM study measuring cognitive deficits equivalent to a 3 to 9-point IQ drop across mild, long, and hospitalized COVID cases.

COVID-19 Rapid Guideline: Managing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (NG188)
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), UK
January 25, 2024

The UK's official clinical guideline for identifying, assessing, and managing long COVID across its acute, ongoing, and post-COVID-19 syndrome phases.

Muscle Abnormalities Worsen After Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID
Brent Appelman et al., Nature Communications
January 4, 2024

A peer-reviewed study provides physiological evidence that patients' muscle structure and metabolic function measurably worsen after PEM is triggered.

Cleveland Clinic's patient-facing overview defining long COVID as any COVID-linked condition persisting three months or longer.

Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, et al. (NIH RECOVER Initiative), JAMA
May 25, 2023

A peer-reviewed NIH RECOVER study analyzing nearly 10,000 participants to identify the 12 symptoms that best distinguish long COVID.

Ed Yong explains that long COVID brain fog is fundamentally a disorder of executive function, not simple forgetfulness — and why it's so often dismissed.

NPR follows a nurse whose long-haul symptoms went unexplained for months before a POTS diagnosis finally gave her a path to treatment.

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