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https://thesicktimes.org/2023/12/18/policy-experts-scientists-disability-groups-urge-biden-to-address-the-long-covid-crisis/>
"A wide breadth of policy experts, scientists, and disability groups are
calling on President Biden to urgently address the Long Covid crisis with
annual funding in the billions.
In the open letter published on Monday, health policy experts, leading Long
Covid researchers, clinicians, journalists, chronic illness and health advocacy
groups, and many others demand that Biden demonstrate support for the millions
of Americans with Long COVID and infection-associated chronic conditions
(IACCs). The authors demand Biden acknowledge this crisis and outline the
actions his administration is taking to address it in his State of the Union
address.
“Failure to address this problem,” the letter’s authors write, “will result
in significant economic, health, quality of life, and societal costs, in the
trillions of dollars. Moreover, every dollar invested in Long COVID and IACC
research will prepare our country for future pandemics and emerging
infection-associated conditions.”
The Biden administration developed the HHS Office of Long Covid in 2022, but
advocates and scientists have criticized it for failing to move more urgently
on the Long Covid crisis and make meaningful changes in the everyday lives of
people with this disease and related infection-associated illnesses.
Many citizens have also pointed out Biden’s unfulfilled campaign promises of
containing the spread of Covid-19. Since he took office in 2021, over 750,000
Americans have died from Covid and millions have developed Long Covid, but
Biden continues to deny the reality of the ongoing pandemic. Current data —
which are not comprehensive estimates, thanks to the dismantling of Covid-19
surveillance systems — suggest hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting
infected and more than one thousand are dying each week of Covid-19. We know
that around 10% of daily cases will go on develop Long Covid, meaning many
thousands of Americans will become debilitated by Long Covid in the coming
months."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: December 21, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-95043283
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
