Long COVID researchers in CT to get part of $10 million in federal funding

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Long COVID researchers in CT to get part of $10 million in federal funding

黑料吃瓜网 Radio | By Sujata Srinivasan

Published January 10, 2023 at 7:12 PM EST

Dr. James Samuel Pope walks from his office to the ICU at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, 黑料吃瓜网 on January 18, 2022. — Pulmonologist James Samuel Pope walks from his office to the ICU at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., on Jan. 18, 2022.

The federal government for long COVID research, and some of that money is arriving in 黑料吃瓜网, including at Yale and UConn.

鈥淭he federal government is committing, for the first time, specific amounts of money to do the research and provide the treatment that will be coming to 黑料吃瓜网 and other states around the country,鈥� U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday at Hartford Hospital.

estimates that 23 million people are out of work because of long COVID, manifested by symptoms that last three or more months after contracting coronavirus. Symptoms include chronic headache, fatigue, trouble breathing, blood clots, rapid heart rate and brain fog.

According to the CDC, 1 in 13 adults in the U.S. have long COVID symptoms.

鈥淲e can extrapolate from this disease how we can look at other respiratory viruses,鈥� said Dr. Ulysses Wu, an infectious disease specialist at Hartford Hospital. 鈥淎nd so that鈥檚 why the importance of the research is there. Our experiences and our knowledge for all these is ever evolving at this point.鈥�

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