NIH is preparing to offer more than $1 billion in grants within three weeks for more research into the long-term health issues after a COVID-19 infection, commonly known as “long COVID-19.”<\/p>\n
NIH Director Francis Collins told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday that the agency is moving forward with an \u201cunprecedented\u201d large-scale study on tens of thousands of COVID-19 long-haulers to examine the \u201cprevalence, severity and persistence\u201d of the ongoing health problems after infection.<\/p>\n
How many have long COVID-19:\u00a0<\/strong>Preliminary research has found between 10 percent to 30 percent of people who had COVID-19 may develop long-term health issues. With more than 32 million confirmed cases in the U.S. in the past year, that could amount to millions dealing with long COVID-19.<\/p>\n Symptoms of long COVID-19 include fatigue, brain fog, disturbed sleep, shortness of breath, palpitations, depression, loss of taste and smell and muscle and joint pain, which persist four weeks after diagnosis.<\/p>\n Message to long-haulers:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSome of you have been suffering for more than a year, with no answers, no treatment options, not even a forecast of what your future may hold,\u201d Collins said during the hearing. \u201cSome of you have even faced skepticism about whether your symptoms are real. I want to assure you that we at NIH hear you and believe you.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s next:\u00a0<\/strong>The agency has already received 273 responses for its February request for research proposals, Collins said, adding he expects intensive laboratory and imaging studies to start by the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NIH is preparing to offer more...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34582,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions\/34582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}