Analysis: Science Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future

Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.   Ed Yong The Atlantic

 Several clinics care for long-haulers, while the biomedical community has begun to identify long-COVID patients as long-COVID patients. But some researchers still hesitate to recognize long COVID if it doesn’t present in certain ways; they’re running studies without listening to patients, and they’ve come up with their own arguably unhelpful name for the disease.

Long-haulers are growing frustrated that what is self-evident to them—their condition is very real and in need of urgent attention from those with power—is taking a worrying amount of time to be acknowledged and acted upon. ...