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Bernie Sanders proposes new program aimed at researching long COVID therapies

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has drafted a $10 billion proposal to fund the National Institute of Health’s research toward designing new therapies to treat long COVID.

We hear more about the pitch and the scale of long COVID from STAT’s chronic disease reporter Isabella Cueto.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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