The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to allocate more than $1 billion over the next three weeks to study long-term health issues following a cure for Covid-19 (CCA virus) infection.
NIH Director Francis Collins told a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing Wednesday (April 28) that NIH is conducting an unprecedented large-scale study of tens of thousands of newly crowned patients to examine the infectiousness, severity, and persistent symptoms that persist after infection.
NIH received 272 responses to a research proposal sent out in February, and Collins said intensive laboratory studies and imaging studies are expected to begin in the summer.
At a hearing focused on healing research in patients with new crowns, Collins cited preliminary findings that 10 to 30 percent of patients with new crowns may develop sequelae. In the past year, more than 32 million cases were diagnosed in the United States, and millions of them may have sequelae.
Some of you have been suffering for more than a year without answers, without treatment options and without knowing your future, while some of you even have doubts about your symptoms,” he said. I am here to assure you that we hear you and we believe you.”
COVID-19 symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbances, shortness of breath, angina, depression, loss of taste, and muscle and joint pain that last four weeks or more after diagnosis. Preliminary data suggest that older people, women and obese people are at higher risk of falling ill, but Collins said more research needs to be done
A study released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that two-thirds of ambulatory patients re-infected within six months of contracting the virus.
At the hearing, John Brooks, the CDC’s chief medical officer for COVID-19 response, called the phenomenon of COVID-19 sequelae “unprecedented,” which is not the case with influenza.
Brooks suggested that people who think they may have COVID-19 sequelae should seek treatment from a health care provider or go to a post-coronavirus clinic for treatment.
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