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HHS’s Long COVID Office Is Closing. What Will This Mean for Future Research and Treatments? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millions of people today

Under orders from the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is planning to close its Office for Long COVID Research and Practice (OLC). This governmental office orchestrates efforts across health agencies to understand and treat long COVID, a mysterious postviral condition that affects an estimated 23 million people in the U.S. today.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh dear. Every time I think I've finally achieved the correct degree of cynicism, another evil like this raises a fin, and I have to recalibrate again. I really hadn't put that together about the money and the poison. Makes total sense, though.