Healthcare DIVE June 9, 2023
Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.
After more than three years, the federal public health emergency and global health emergency for COVID-19 have ended, signaling a huge change for the U.S. healthcare system and national health policy. While deaths, hospitalizations and new infections due to COVID have decreased, the long-term threat to public health still remains.
Long COVID — the long-term, disabling symptoms of COVID that impact one in five Americans for months or even years following infection — has created a new disability in a previously healthy population. It has also caused 4 million people to be out of work with...