The Struggle to Define Long COVID

September 21, 2021

(The New Yorker) – The needed research is under way. Medical schools around the country have begun studying long COVID, and hundreds of papers trying to demystify the syndrome have been published. Congress has authorized more than a billion dollars for research on the long-term consequences of coronavirus infection; Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, has announced a long-COVID initiative that will include a large-scale, four-hundred-and-seventy-million-dollar study of the syndrome, designed in part using input from patients and families. “We know some people have had their lives completely upended by the major long-term effects of COVID-19,” Collins said recently. (Read Full Article)