I remember the isolation and uncertainty that came with the COVID lockdown of 2020. It was difficult to think about the future — we all took things day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and sometimes, minute-by-minute.
In 2024, we’re no longer living under those same restrictions, but millions of Americans are still facing their challenges in solitude due to a Long COVID diagnosis — with no end in sight. People with Long COVID deserve a robust federal response to acknowledge and alleviate the difficulties they've been dealt. They deserve to be seen. And we can’t leave anyone behind as we continue to recover from the pandemic.
That’s why I just introduced the Long Covid Research Moonshot Act with my sister-in-service Ilhan Omar. Our bill builds on my TREAT Long COVID Act to invest the resources necessary to confront this crisis head-on, and it will help ensure that no one is left out in our pandemic recovery. The Long COVID crisis has been ignored for far too long at the expense of people’s everyday lives. The Long Covid Research Moonshot Act will fund critical research to better understand and treat Long COVID. Please add your name today as a grassroots co-sponsor of this bill to show your support.
This critical legislation will allocate $10 billion in funding to fight Long COVID, establish a new research program to better understand this condition that has left patients with no answers, and will fund care clinics dedicated to Long COVID in disproportionately affected communities. Women, communities of color, and folks with disabilities have been disproportionately harmed by Long COVID, which has also left many people disabled and unable to work.
There is no returning to the "normal" pre-COVID status quo, because that status quo was unjust to begin with — and not when millions of people in America are STILL living with the aftershocks of this disease. The pandemic has left unerasable scars on all of us, no doubt. And for so many people with Long COVID, there are more than scars, there is the daily reality of a disease that won’t quit, and little support to navigate it.
Onward,
Ayanna
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