Learn how research into the links between diabetes and COVID-19 may affect diabetes diagnosis, treatment, and long-term complications.| National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Activists are calling for more research and government support to address troubling health disparities.| Them
New data from the CDC found more than 80% of people with long COVID reported some trouble performing day-to-day activities.| ABC News
Congress provided the NIH with $1.15 billion to help patients in December 2020 — and the agency has now spent most of that funding, according to a detailed new budget breakdown shared with MuckRock and STAT, with the majority going towards observational research rather than clinical trials.| MuckRock
A key source of U.S. Long COVID data is now offline following a purge of information related to sexual orientation and gender identity ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration. The Household Pulse Survey, a data collection effort by the U.S. Census and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is among many CDC datasets and pages that became unavailable on Friday.| The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis
Four years after the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, researchers say much is still not understood about a common complication: long COVID.| ABC News
This issue brief analyzes the latest data on rates of long COVID, which have appeared to stabilize, affecting about 1 in 10 adults who have had COVID.| KFF
Read chapter 2 Defining Long COVID: The lack of a clear and consistent definition for Long COVID presents challenges for policymakers, researchers, public...| nap.nationalacademies.org
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05576662.| PubMed
WASHINGTON – At a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy Taryn Williams applauded the launch of the Mental Health and Employment Working Group as it seeks to identify policies, plans and practices to address and support workers’ mental health needs in the nation’s cities. | DOL
The National Academy of Sciences finds that long Covid is affecting adults and children alike, in ways that may not be captured by the Social Security Administration.| STAT
Why youth mental illness is surging| www.gurwinder.blog
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.| STAT