A group of top researchers, clinicians and patients stepped up efforts to combat Long Covid on Thursday, launching a new billionaire-backed initiative to search for drivers of the poorly understood condition and eventually find treatments for the millions of people around the world living with the disease.
The causes of Long Covid are being looked for by the LCRI.
The Long Covid Research Initiative hopes to accelerate efforts to understand and treat Long Covid, a sometimes disabling condition that lasts for months or years after an infectious disease.
Balvi, a scientific investment fund led by Vitalik Buterin, supported the group's first goal, which was to investigate the causes of Long Covid.
One of the goals of the research program is to identify measurable features of Long Covid that could form the basis of a clinical trial.
Henry Scott-Green told Forbes that the group was founded with alaser focus on solving the problem of Long Covid and that its structure and funding was designed to cut bureaucracy.
Scott-Green said the group is aiming to raise $100 million in order to help patients.
More than a hundred million people around the world are expected to suffer from Long Covid, but the disease is not well understood. The causes are not known. Some researchers theorize that problems with the immune system may be to blame for the blood clot that may have been caused by the viral reservoir theory. There is a chance these issues could be linked. According to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of the disease could be as high as one in five. The economic impact of Long Covid is huge. More than 16 million working age Americans are affected by the condition, which is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work. The cost of lost wages is estimated to be as high as $230 billion. Many people don't know about the problem of Long Covid.
In 13 days, it will be 1 in 13 According to data collected in June by the U.S. Census Bureau, there is a number of Americans with Long Covid symptoms that last three or more months. The figure doesn't include children and is probably underestimated.
Dominos are falling. Multiple Sclerosis and Myalgic encephalomyelitis are two conditions that are believed to be caused by viral persistence. According to Proal, Long Covid seemed to fit the bill when the Pandemic began. Scott-Green hopes that Long Covid's model will one day be used to treat other chronic illnesses. He thinks Long Covid will be the first domino to fall.
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