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Far-left Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed a massive investment in research into long Covid, a condition that many experts remain unconvinced is the great public health threat people claim.<br><br>Sanders, from Vermont, hopes to establish a $10 billion long Covid moonshot project to speed up research and create a long Covid patient database for doctors to share information with each other.<br><br>His proposal would also create a centralized committee partly made up of actual long Covid patients to oversee research grant disbursements and the status of the research the government is funding.<br><br>The CDC said in 2022 that seven percent of Americans reported having ever experienced long Covid, around 18 million.<br><br>But doctors have said that overly broad definitions of the condition—an umbrella term for some 200 different symptoms— has led to a great over-exaggeration of the risks and how common it is, leading to many misdiagnoses.<br><br>Your browser does not support iframes.<br><br><br><br><br>Sen Sanders' proposed long Covid moonshot would allocate $1 billion over 10 years to research and development of treatments. The proposal is still in committee, though, and will need to advance before it goes to the full floor for a vote<br><br>Long Covid is a constellation of symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, headache, trouble sleeping, changes in smell or taste, neck pain, constipation, irregular heartbeat, and many more.<br><br>However, many experts have said the long-term symptoms some patients experience following infection are no different from those caused by other viruses, such as flu. <br><br>A recent study found that patients who'd been hospitalized for flu were far more likely to seek medical care for certain conditions than those who'd had hospital treatment for a Covid-19 infection. <br><br>They also found those who were hospitalized for flu were nearly twice as likely to receive treatment for a neurological disorder in the following year, compared to their Covid patient counterparts. <br><br>An Australian physician previously told DailyMail.com that the designation ‘long Covid' can cause unnecessary fear, ‘and in some cases, hypervigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery.'<br><br>Last year, scientists from the UK, US and Denmark looked at the definition of long Covid by a number of global health organizations, including the [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?query=National%20Institute National Institute] for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the World Health Organization (WHO).<br><br>They found any new symptoms occurring after a confirmed or suspected Covid infection could be considered consistent with long Covid, resulting in more than 200 symptoms associated with it.<br><br>Many doctors are unconvinced that long Covid as a condition in and of itself exists, instead believing that different symptoms could signify a number of other diagnoses, such as hypertension, diabetes, lupus,  lam bang cap 3 ([https://bangcacloai.com/lam-chung-chi-nghe-han-2025/ bangcacloai.com]) and even cancer.