long-hauler

Spanish translation: con convalecencias largas

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00:56 Jul 13, 2020
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COVID-19 - Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-), Medical: Health Care, Science (general), Journalism
English term or phrase: long-hauler
Definition from Fritinancy Word of the Week:
Although the World Health Organization reports that 80 percent of COVID infections are “mild or asymptomatic,” and most patients recover after one or two weeks, thousands of people now say they’ve been coping with serious symptoms for a month or longer. In online support groups, these people call themselves “long-haulers.”

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  • Even though the world is consumed by concern over COVID-19, the long-haulers have been largely left out of the narrative and excluded from the figures that define the pandemic. I can pull up an online dashboard that reveals the numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and recoveries—but LeClerc falls into none of those categories. She and others are trapped in a statistical limbo, uncounted and thus overlooked. The Atlantic
  • Coronavirus 'long haulers' are sick for months. This doctor is one of them Today
  • Dr Jake Suett, an intensive-care doctor in Norfolk, who was himself ill for several weeks, wrote an open letter calling on the government to push for more research into long-haul symptoms, and also to raise awareness among not only health professionals but also employers, who may see their staff off work for longer than two weeks. BBC
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Spanish translation:con convalecencias largas
Definition:
DEFINICIÓN DE
CONVALECENCIA
La convalecencia es la condición del convaleciente: aquel que convalece (es decir, que está realizando reposo para recuperar la energía que perdió debido a una enfermedad o a otro tipo de trastorno de salud). El término procede del vocablo latino convalescentia.
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4 +3con convalecencias largas
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con convalecencias largas


Definition from Definicion.de/:
DEFINICIÓN DE
CONVALECENCIA
La convalecencia es la condición del convaleciente: aquel que convalece (es decir, que está realizando reposo para recuperar la energía que perdió debido a una enfermedad o a otro tipo de trastorno de salud). El término procede del vocablo latino convalescentia.

Example sentence(s):
  • “- “Es una convalecencia muy larga”. La mayoría de las personas que contraen el virus tienen pocos síntomas o ninguno, pero algunas se ... - Infobae  
  • Efectivamente hay algunos pacientes que tienen una persistencia de síntomas, que presentan una convalecencia más larga que con otras infecciones respiratorias convencionales", corrobora el doctor José Miguel Cisneros, portavoz de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. La tos, la anosmia y la disgeusia (pérdida del olfato y el gusto) y la astenia, explica, son algunos de los vestigios que permanecen "más allá de la definición de curación clínica del paciente" de forma más recurrente. - 20 minutos  

Explanation:
También puede traducirse con la paráfrasis "pacientes que demoran mucho en recuperarse" o "con síntomas de Covid persistentes".
Mariana Gutierrez
Local time: 22:10
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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Votes in favor of/against selecting this as the best translation of the term asked
Yes  Leda Roche: con persistencia de los síntomas
11 hrs
  -> Gracias, Leda.

Yes  Laura Bernal Martín: pacientes denominados COVID persistentes / enfermos de COVID de larga duración / pacientes con síntomas persistentes
1 day 19 hrs
  -> Gracias, Laura.

Yes  Daniela E Obregón
4 days
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