Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the covid-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event.
Estimates of prevalence range considerably, depending on how researchers define long covid in a given study, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts it at 17 million adults.
Despite long covid’s vast reach, the federal government’s investment in researching the disease — to the tune of $1.15 billion as of December — has so far failed to bring any new treatments to market.
Sorry to hear about your long COVID :(
Your point is spot on. It’s not even guarantee that we find a solution… you can’t just ask scientist to science faster. The problem is with lackluster investments and also expectations that everything can be fixed with enough money thrown at it :(
Yep. But time and money massively increase the odds something is found.
Given long COVID is costing about 1 trillion per year* in lost growth, I’m surprised the capitalists aren’t taking it seriously.
*https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03173-6
I agree 100%