It will be four years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and it seems that the health crisis has been completely overcome. But nothing could be further from the truth, as there are more than one million people suffering from persistent covid, a pathology that still has large research and treatment gaps. For this reason, the Spanish Research Network on Persistent Covid (REiCOP) has held a meeting at which 16 research projects have been presented and a clear thesis has been pursued: the need to put the patient at the center.