Experts, patients warn Congress about the burden of long COVID

‘On par with cancer and heart disease’: Experts, patients warn Congress about the burden of long COVID as the government blows through $1.15 billion without finding a cure There’s a strong argument to be made for the government to provide the funding–and then mostly get out of the way. Yahoo Finance

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The one-day hearing in Washington, D.C., was in some ways a microcosm of the struggle to get leaders focused on long COVID in the same way they once were on the disease itself. Among other things, this marked the first hearing on long COVID since the start of the pandemic, even though people have been reporting their inability to recover from the virus since the spring of 2020.

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