The government will expand a nationwide network of long covid clinics being run through the Department of Veterans Affairs, with officials saying they are already providing new insights on how to care for long covid patients. It’s “a landmark moment in long covid,” said Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. “It’s a recognition of the fact that long covid is real and that it does exist. But experts who study long covid said more needs to be done and the initiatives underway are not large enough. Advertisement“We feel the urgency of addressing long covid,” said an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the initiative.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2022 13:45 UTC