{"id":8113,"date":"2025-02-27T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2025-02-27T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T11:27:25","slug":"the-trump-years-will-be-grim-for-long-covid-sufferers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-trump-years-will-be-grim-for-long-covid-sufferers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump years will be grim for long Covid sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2020, the U.S. government\u2019s involvement in addressing the pandemic of long Covid officially began when <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/recovercovid.org\/funding\">Congress allocated<\/a> $1.15&nbsp;billion to the National Institutes of Health for research into the lasting health consequences of Covid-19. For people suffering from long Covid, the move offered hope.<\/p>\n<p>Just over four years later, on Feb.&nbsp;19, President Trump disbanded the Health and Human Services Secretary\u2019s Advisory Committee on Long COVID, as part of an executive order titled \u201cCommencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.\u201d After the Biden administration\u2019s tepid involvement and fitful progress in long Covid policy and practice, this decision may signal the end of meaningful federal involvement in mitigating the plight of millions of long Covid sufferers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2020, the U.S. government\u2019s involvement in addressing the pandemic of long Covid officially began when <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/recovercovid.org\/funding\">Congress allocated<\/a> $1.15&nbsp;billion to the National Institutes of Health for research into the lasting health consequences of Covid-19. For people suffering from long Covid, the move offered hope.<\/p>\n<p>Just over four years later, on Feb.&nbsp;19, President Trump disbanded the Health and Human Services Secretary\u2019s Advisory Committee on Long COVID, as part of an executive order titled \u201cCommencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.\u201d After the Biden administration\u2019s tepid involvement and fitful progress in long Covid policy and practice, this decision may signal the end of meaningful federal involvement in mitigating the plight of millions of long Covid sufferers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-trump-years-will-be-grim-for-long-covid-sufferers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Trump years will be grim for long Covid sufferers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[525,18,1301,11,8,571,14,130,1252,51],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-kakistocracy","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}