President Joe Biden on Tuesday tasked the U.S. health department with developing a national action plan to tackle the looming health crisis of long COVID, a complex, multi-symptom condition that leaves many of its sufferers unable to work.
Long COVID, which arises months after a COVID-19 infection, affects nearly 7% of all U.S. adults and 2.3% of the overall population and has cost an estimated $386 billion in lost wages, savings and medical bills, according to an analysis by the Solve Long Covid Initiative, a non-profit research and advocacy group.
"Americans of every age and background are experiencing long COVID," he added at a press briefing. "To be clear, we are going to use every tool we have to be there for these Americans." It addresses some concerns raised by patient advocacy groups, which have criticized the slow speed of the National Institutes of Health's $1.15 billion RECOVER research program, and aims to accelerate the enrollment of 40,000 people with and without long COVID.
The plan calls for allocating an additional $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from Biden's 2023 budget - in addition to the agency's $50 million investment - to better understand and find solutions to characteristics, risk factors, underlying mechanisms, and health impacts of long COVID.
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