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The NIH’s $1.15 billion investment in long covid research has failed to bring any new treatments to market

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In December 2020 , Congress appropriated $1.15 billion in funding for long-covid research.

The federal government's investment in researching the disease has so far failed to bring any new treatments to market.

Some doctors and researchers are also critical of the NIH 's research initiative, called RECOVER , or Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery.

Long-covid is an “exceedingly complicated” illness that appears to affect nearly every organ system.

Because long covid harms the body in so many ways, with widely variable symptoms, it’s harder to identify precise targets for treatment.

Patients say RECOVER leadership ignored their priorities and experiences when determining which studies to fund.

There’s a host of pharmaceuticals that have promising off-label uses for long covid, said microbiologist Amy Proal .

But to vet a range of possible treatments for the millions suffering now, clinical trials are needed.

The deadline to submit research proposals for potential long-covid treatments is Feb. 1 .

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