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NIH got $1.6 billion for research into long COVID. Where are the treatments?

by Samantha Fields
Nov 11, 2024
About $1.6 billion has been invested in a program that has yielded little progress, disappointing many who suffer with the complex condition.
Efforts to develop treatments for long COVID, which has a wide range of symptoms, have had little success so far. Above, an event supporting long COVID patients in Germany.
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Now that Boeing's strike is over, the planemaker faces a massive backlog of orders

by Henry Epp
Nov 5, 2024
But the problem's industry-wide: Airbus is also dealing with a hefty backlog.
Increased demand and supply chain issues following the pandemic contributed to Boeing's current struggles.
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Federal government brings back free COVID-19 home tests

by Savannah Peters
Sep 23, 2024
The decision will ensure supply of the virus detection tools and support manufacturers, who have dealt with a boom-and-bust market.
With vaccines, treatments and immunity blunting the risks associated with COVID, Americans' interest in testing has waned.
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Is the shoplifting "crisis" over?

by Ellen Rolfes and Katie Reuther
Sep 20, 2024
Plus, we'll look at the how gas prices can affect elections and do the numbers on the new COVID vaccine in this week's newsletter.
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Restaurant industry still struggles with staffing, consultant says

by Kristin Schwab and Sofia Terenzio
Sep 4, 2024
Restaurants across the U.S. have the same problems, says Alexis Percival. "There's been a bit of a reckoning" about how hard the work is.
Alexis Percival, once a restaurant owner, now works as a consultant in the industry. Her current project has brought her to Texas.
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Long COVID can make work challenging. Accommodations can make a difference.

by Samantha Fields
May 22, 2024
In more than half of cases, workplace accommodations don’t cost an employer anything, according to one survey.
For many, long COVID is severe enough that it affects their ability to work. One study estimates about 700,000 people are likely missing from the labor force because of it.
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Economists used the business cycle to predict what's next. It doesn't work so well anymore.

by Justin Ho
Apr 23, 2024
Where's the recession? Changes like the pandemic crash and government funding programs have disrupted the expansion-contraction pattern.
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Protecting yourself from COVID-19 these days is hard. And it comes at a cost.

by Samantha Fields
Mar 20, 2024
Governments and businesses need to invest in ways to prevent transmission, experts say, instead of leaving people on their own.
"We cannot rely on masking forever. We cannot ask people, even immunocompromised people, to mask for the next 100 years," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist. Above, people with long COVID symptoms sit in on a Senate hearing about the condition.
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