evidence: ‘Long Covid’ should be scrapped over fears its ‘probably harmful’: QLD chief health officer [...] One of the nation’s top health authorities is calling for the term "long Covid" to be scrapped as new research suggests it is no more "sinister" than the long-term effects of the flu. Long Covid emerged as a term during the heart of the pandemic when it was determined a small minority of people experienced long-lasting symptoms for a number of months after recovering from the initial viral infection.