{"id":9513,"date":"2025-12-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:29:46","slug":"long-covid-research-just-got-a-big-funding-boost-will-it-find-new-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-research-just-got-a-big-funding-boost-will-it-find-new-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major boost to research on long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), the German government has announced that it will provide \u20ac500&nbsp;million (US$582&nbsp;million) in research funding to support a National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases from <a href=\"https:\/\/www-bmftr-bund-de.translate.goog\/SharedDocs\/Kurzmeldungen\/DE\/2025\/11\/nationale-dekade-postinfekti%C3%B6se-erkrankungen.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">2026 to 2036<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is one of many countries facing an unprecedented health burden owing to long COVID and other post-infection syndromes since the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost one in five people in a German cohort had long COVID in 2022, and around one in seven people in the United States were affected by long COVID by late 2023. This translates to a considerable burden on health care and the economy \u2014 the syndrome is estimated to cost the world economy US$1&nbsp;trillion every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom many conversations, I know what a great burden these illnesses represent for those affected and their families,\u201d said Dorothee B\u00e4r, the German federal minister for research, in a press release announcing the funding. \u201cThere are still no simple solutions or therapies for ME\/CFS and post-viral autoimmune diseases, and previous scientific studies demonstrate the complexity of the disease mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really major funding,\u201d says Rafael Mikolajczyk, an epidemiologist at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St.&nbsp;Louis, agrees, saying it\u2019s \u201ca great step in the right direction\u201d. Long COVID has become politicized and \u201cless of a priority for governments around the world\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major boost to research on long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), the German government has announced that it will provide \u20ac500&nbsp;million (US$582&nbsp;million) in research funding to support a National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases from <a href=\"https:\/\/www-bmftr-bund-de.translate.goog\/SharedDocs\/Kurzmeldungen\/DE\/2025\/11\/nationale-dekade-postinfekti%C3%B6se-erkrankungen.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">2026 to 2036<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is one of many countries facing an unprecedented health burden owing to long COVID and other post-infection syndromes since the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost one in five people in a German cohort had long COVID in 2022, and around one in seven people in the United States were affected by long COVID by late 2023. This translates to a considerable burden on health care and the economy \u2014 the syndrome is estimated to cost the world economy US$1&nbsp;trillion every year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-research-just-got-a-big-funding-boost-will-it-find-new-treatments\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?<\/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":[18,334,397,11,1247,1016,8,14],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-long-covid","tag-me-cfs","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","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=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9516,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions\/9516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}