Long COVID research funding at NIH gets a nearly 50% boost
The federal government will allocate an additional $515 million to an initiative to study long COVID.
It is a nearly 50% increase to the project’s budget.
The research initiative at the National Institutes of Health, named RECOVER, was created in 2020 with a $1.15 billion investment in research to understand and investigate treatments for long COVID.
The NIH said that the funding would be used to test additional treatments in clinical trials, study how long COVID affects each part of the body, look at who fully recovers long term and maintain research infrastructure.
According to the NIH, one in nine adults who have had COVID-19 continue to experience long COVID with a wide range of symptoms.
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