Opinion: NIH trials fail to test meaningful long Covid treatments

‘Underwhelming’: NIH trials fail to test meaningful long Covid treatments — after 2.5 years and $1 billion The NIH says it’s used up most of its $1.15 billion of long Covid funding and more money is not forthcoming, per new budget details. Erin Mershon STAT

More than 2.5 years after the National Institutes of Health received a $1 billion mandate from Congress to study and treat long Covid, the agency has finally launched clinical trials for the often-debilitating condition. But both scientists who study long Covid and patients who have struggled with it say the trials are unlikely to deliver meaningful treatments, suggesting the federal government’s landmark Covid research effort may have been wasted.

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