Long Covid Help Gets Funding Push From Biden HHS, Lawmakers

Hundreds of millions of dollars would go toward efforts to diagnose and treat people suffering long-term Covid symptoms under funding plans put forth by the Biden administration and lawmakers.

The proposals would aid Americans still struggling with fatigue, brain fog, and other ailments of long Covid, and come as the health system prepares to exit the pandemic state.

Health and policy experts say long Covid is still a daily burden for an estimated 10 million to 35 million working-age adults, and that the medical professionals treating them are often lacking in education on the condition as well as resources ...