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Slapbox t1_iqnjjd9 wrote

Reply to comment by jacksnsticks05 in Effect of COVID-19 Vaccines on Reducing the Risk of Long COVID by mightx

> Actually there are plenty of medical scientists trying to sort it out... so no it hasnt been forgotten and ignored.

The government funding and messaging is abysmal, so even though people are working on it, crucial actors in fixing this situation are asleep at the wheel.

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jacksnsticks05 t1_iqnkyil wrote

The government is by no means the crucial actor in this. This work is being done entirely by Academic Medical Institutions around the world.... the university medical centers and the medical schools around the world.... Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Karolinska Institute, even University of Alabama and the lesser known medical schools. The article in the OP is from Peking University, School of Public Health.

The governments only role in this is registering the clinical trials for official purposes. As far as funding, write to your legislator. The universities have to secure their own funding, and sometimes it does come from the government, and often it doesnt.

Here's the list of 309 ongoing clinical trials that are registered with the US government for regulatory purposes.... not to mention the hundreds of other studies that are being done to try to determine the causes of Long COVID (studies not involving the trial of treatments but the biochemical causes)

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Long+COVID&term=&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=

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