The Biden administration pledged to set up an office dedicated to long Covid, but offered no details on how to pay for it.
is meant to provide an outline of what is needed to help support long Covid patients moving forward.
Angela Meriquez Vazquez, president of the long Covid advocacy group Body Politic, called the announcement of such an office"unexpected and quite historic."But it remained unclear whether money and resources are available to accomplish this, and an HHS spokesperson told NBC News that the agency had no further details to add.
What's more, the government's flagship, billion-dollar long Covid research project, led by the National Institutes of Health, has received criticism for its slow uptick in getting patients to sign up.project started recruiting participants in October, with the goal of including 20,000 adults with long Covid.
He is one of the outside experts who's been tapped to offer guidance to HHS on its long Covid response over the past eight months.
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