Taxpayer-Funded $1 Billion ‘Long COVID’ Research Has Been A Total Failure, Waste Of Time: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Tim Meads.

    Thanks for paying your taxes this week, comrades, your hard-earned money is going toward more than $1 billion worth of "long COVID" research that has been a complete waste of time, according to a recent report.

    On Thursday, Stat News reported that in 2021, the National Institutes of Health was given a gigantic sum of money to study how COVID might be affecting a potentially sizable number of Americans, long after they recovered from the initial infection. Millions of Americans suffer from brain fog, lack of smell and other weird changes, and fatigue well after getting the virus. Nobody is quite sure why, if it is even related to COVID, or how to stop it. So, the NIH was tasked with getting to the bottom of it.

    Except they haven't. Not only has the NIH not even bothered to test any sort of relief on "long COVID" sufferers, but they haven't released any studies from their "observational research" either. It's been two years since they were given the money, and a mandate to study long COVID, and the NIH doesn't seem to have any urgency at all on this topic.

    According to the vice provost for global initiatives and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of former President Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the American people have not "gotten anything for a billion dollars."


    "That is just unacceptable, and it's a serious dysfunction," Emanuel said to Stat News.

    The NIH is supposedly working with different universities to conduct five separate trials for a study dubbed RECOVER. But those have all been delayed and NIH hasn't signed up a single patient yet. Emanuel says that the NIH's strategy does not make any sense, even if they don't quite have the logistics of it figured out.

    "If you don't have the pathobiology figured out, you try things. You don't just slow, slow, slow, walk it," he said,

    Eric Topol, the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, also told Stat that he expected that the NIH would have had a lot more to show by now given how much money Congress allotted them.

    "I don't know that they've contributed anything except more confusion," Topol said.

    Now, certain readers will probably wonder if these guys are giving the NIH the benefit of the doubt. Varying evidence shows that the NIH regularly wastes mountains of taxpayers' money each year. All federal agencies do, it's sort of their shtick.

    Perhaps the NIH is dragging its feet with this study because if they do any more research into "long COVID," then it might reveal that the virus is not one of natural origin and instead was made in a laboratory, which could explain the bizarre ongoing symptoms. Now, that's a layman's suspicion, but this author has the benefit of being outside the medical establishment and looking at this with a skeptical eye.

    Whatever the case, thanks for paying your taxes to fund this study that has accomplished little. If you're feeling down about it, just remember it's only a portion of the money going toward Ukraine. If you need to explain to your kid why he can't go to summer camp or why you are stuck eating cube steaks each night for dinner, just explain that your money is supporting a "war for democracy" and a "long COVID study," neither of which are yielding results.


    The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

poll#177

Considering the irrefutable fact that the Left /the Democratic Socialists, beginning in March of 2020, employed the repetitive use of the Covid Pandemic as a political cudgel to wrest a presidential election, where their candidate rarely left his basement, from a frightened and beaten down citizenry of this Representative Republic: What does your knowledge NOW, in hindsight, aid in your understanding of the motives of the Authoritarian Left?

  The "Left" cares about all Democratics, so it was imperative that we do whatever it took to elect a lifelong politician to become that Democratic Socialist to forever change US.

  Pandemics are serious business, where our leaders must use wisdom and practicable efforts of all that serve to protect the public from not only the pandemic, but these ignoble usurpers of the Left.

  I lost almost everything in the Covid Pandemic, and I want justice; a justice where only the truth prevails, and the rampant fraud that is now legend is remedied.

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poll#169

Considering how abjectly corrupt and civilly abusive the Left has become regarding the corrosive effect of their elected leaders; their entrenched and ruling bureaucracy; employing their failed Education Industry as Indoctrinators; their collusive private sector operators, such as the terminally discredited Legacy Media and Big Tech censorship of Free Speech: What will be the best course forward for hardworking Middle Americans, including the Patriot Class?

  Withdraw from society, go underground and plan for a resurgence when it is feasible to do so.

  Work within the confines of better policy by the People's government, once good sense and sanity is restored in the electorate at large, to achieve such.

  Are you a crazy, nut-job Insurrectionist? Everything is perfect within our plan to achieve our intended goals for the Socialist Left.

  Secession to form a true Constitutional Republic.

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