NEWS: Chairman Bernie Sanders Releases Long COVID Moonshot Legislative Proposal | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
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WASHINGTON, April 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and...
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Sanders’s Moonshot for Long Covid treatment calls for $10 billion in funding over the next ten years. They are currently looking for input from the patient and medical community to figure out how the proposal can be strengthened. (The link contains more information on how but I haven’t had time to read the full proposal yet).

This is the kind of response we need so fingers crossed it goes somewhere. There was a lot of bipartisan interest at the HELP Long Covid Congressional Hearing in January but it was unclear what if any action would come as a result so hopefully a proposal like this picks up traction.