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
The annual financial reports of Social Security and Medicare rely on long-term assumptions that are hard to forecast – but may be overly optimistic| www.briefingbook.info
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
What have we learned in the first half of 2024?| yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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
In January 2022, Brookings Metro published a report that assessed the impact of long Covid on the labor market. Data on the condition’s prevalence was limited, so the report used various studies to make a conservative estimate: 1.6 million full-time equivalent workers could be out of work due to long Covid. With 10.6 million unfilled jobs at the time, long Covid potentially accounted for 15% of the labor shortage. | Brookings
Why youth mental illness is surging| www.gurwinder.blog
Long COVID is a thorn in the side of "back to normal." Attempts to silence patients are intensifying.| www.thegauntlet.news
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