Bernie Sanders has introduced the Long COVID Research Moonshot Act, $10b in research funding for the condition, which currently has no FDA-approved treatments. Comparative work on similar conditions like Lyme, POTS/dysautonomia, ME/CFS and post-vac syndrome is included. Five Dems cosponsor.
wonderful they made sure to piggyback historically underfunded lyme research on there
Oh that would be GREAT. All of those need more research, and the symptom overlap... It would be nice to not be gaslit by the medical profession just because they can't figure them out.
Thank goodness
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just called both my senators and might have scared an aide a little with my enthusiasm
Really excited about this, but I don’t think the language regarding ME/CFS,POTS, Lyme, etc, is strong enough. There’s a lot of “should consider” but not enough “shall”. Yes, it calls out hiring a director that knows these other conditions, as well as sharing info and running comparative research 1/3
guy has been a disappointment on this issue previously in a lot of ways; but imagine what we could do with more socialists in congress, dang government actually doing shit for the people and whatnot
I’m a Bernie Bro again