Scientists with the RECOVER Initiative say they’re working as quickly as they can to find answers. LongCovid LongCovidKids COVID19 CovidIsNotOver
You may have heard the big long COVID news that came out recently: A Scottish study reported that about
Morehouse is participating in a long COVID study at Howard University in Washington D.C. It’s part of a many-armed giant of a project with an eye on one thing: the long-term health effects of COVID-19. Launched last year by the National Institutes of Health, the aims to enroll roughly 60,000 adults and children. At the Howard site, Morehouse is volunteer No. 182.
RECOVER scientists need participants like Morehouse so the researchers can compare them with people who developed long COVID. That might reveal what the disease is — and who it tends to strike. “Our goals are to define long COVID and to understand what’s your risk of getting [it] after COVID infection,” Katz says. Their results could be a first step toward developing treatments.