Five reasons why Long COVID research in the U.S. is so difficult

May 15, 2022.Reading time 22 minutes.

Over a year after the NIH received $1 billion to study Long COVID, the agency’s flagship study is floundering and frustrating patient advocates. Here are five reasons why Long COVID research is tough in the U.S., taken from my reporting for a recent Grid story.

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Sources and updates, April 10

April 10, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Sources and updates for the week of April 10 include safety for large, indoor events; state data reporting frequencies; a new Long COVID task force; COVID-19 testing in schools; and more.

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New study demonstrates potential for measuring breakthrough risk

October 10, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Adults with substance use disorders have an increased risk of breakthrough cases, according to a new study published this week in the journal World Psychiatry. Though the chances of a COVID-19 case after vaccination were very low in this group, these patients’ odds of a breakthrough case were about twice as high as the odds for adults without substance use disorders, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found.

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12 Long COVID stats that demonstrate the importance of vaccination

October 10, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Though it’s now been well over a year since the first Long COVID patients were infected, there is still so much we don’t know about the condition. For example, we don’t know a very rudimentary number: how many people in the U.S. are struggling with Long COVID. We also don’t have a clear, detailed picture of Long COVID symptoms, or how these symptoms arise from a coronavirus infection, or how they impact the daily lives of Long COVID patients.

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Five more things, May 9

May 9, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Hospital worker vaccination rates, a new study modeling COVID-19 deaths, a New York Times mix-up, and more.

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COVID source shout-out: NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

April 18, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Last spring, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set up a special website compiling guidance on how to treat COVID-19 patients, intended as a resource for physicians and researchers. We featured this source in an issue a couple of months ago, but I wanted to revisit it today because the site’s one-year anniversary is coming up this week!

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COVID source shout-out: I’ve never wanted to be an “NIH-er” this bad

April 11, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

On Friday, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins posted a video of a “COVIDized” “Here Comes The Sun” to his NIH Director’s blog, in which he thanked “NIH-ers” and promised a way out of the “long, dark, COVID winter.”

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