On September 25, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) established new International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes including “post COVID-19 condition”, soon called long covid syndrome. [1, 3]
Post COVID-19 condition is assigned ICD code U09.9: which is an “optional code” that “serves to allow the establishment of a link with COVID-19” [2, 4]
“This coding enables Australia and the international community to collect and compare data on people who have a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which is particularly important as the long-term health implications of an infection and [ COVID-19] is [as of June 2022] poorly understood.”
It wasn’t until October 2021 that the clinical case definition of post COVID-19 condition was released by WHO, and for children Feb 2023. A search of both thes case definition documents includes no reference to “spike” or “protien”, but does SARS-CoV-2!
Spike protein is the common link between SARS-CoV-2 viral infection and the COVID-19 vaccines…spike is not being considered by authorities as of early 2023.