Will Stone

Yeah, continually. The federal government has funded long COVID research through its recover initiative. Last year, an additional $660 million was appropriated. That's to be spent over the next four years, including on clinical trials. Now, obviously, there's huge uncertainty about federal funding for scientific research in general under the Trump administration. I spoke to Megan Stone about this.

Yeah, continually. The federal government has funded long COVID research through its recover initiative. Last year, an additional $660 million was appropriated. That's to be spent over the next four years, including on clinical trials. Now, obviously, there's huge uncertainty about federal funding for scientific research in general under the Trump administration. I spoke to Megan Stone about this.

Yeah, continually. The federal government has funded long COVID research through its recover initiative. Last year, an additional $660 million was appropriated. That's to be spent over the next four years, including on clinical trials. Now, obviously, there's huge uncertainty about federal funding for scientific research in general under the Trump administration. I spoke to Megan Stone about this.

No relation to me. She's a patient and directs the long COVID campaign. Stone has been in D.C. lobbying senators and the administration to, among other things, protect those funds from any cuts. Actually, this past week, she was at the confirmation hearing for Trump's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and she managed to get a moment with him afterwards.

No relation to me. She's a patient and directs the long COVID campaign. Stone has been in D.C. lobbying senators and the administration to, among other things, protect those funds from any cuts. Actually, this past week, she was at the confirmation hearing for Trump's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and she managed to get a moment with him afterwards.

No relation to me. She's a patient and directs the long COVID campaign. Stone has been in D.C. lobbying senators and the administration to, among other things, protect those funds from any cuts. Actually, this past week, she was at the confirmation hearing for Trump's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and she managed to get a moment with him afterwards.

He said to me, we're going to do the research to find a solution to this. I hope so. If the administration doesn't meet the patient community in that, then we will keep calling for action the same way that we did under President Biden. Regardless of party or political position, long COVID patients have been failed by our leaders.

He said to me, we're going to do the research to find a solution to this. I hope so. If the administration doesn't meet the patient community in that, then we will keep calling for action the same way that we did under President Biden. Regardless of party or political position, long COVID patients have been failed by our leaders.

He said to me, we're going to do the research to find a solution to this. I hope so. If the administration doesn't meet the patient community in that, then we will keep calling for action the same way that we did under President Biden. Regardless of party or political position, long COVID patients have been failed by our leaders.

To be clear, there's certainly skepticism about whether the administration will take this work seriously, and there are real disagreements between the patient community and those now leading federal health agencies around COVID policies more generally. But Stone says long COVID patients just don't have the luxury to sit this out over the next four years.

To be clear, there's certainly skepticism about whether the administration will take this work seriously, and there are real disagreements between the patient community and those now leading federal health agencies around COVID policies more generally. But Stone says long COVID patients just don't have the luxury to sit this out over the next four years.

To be clear, there's certainly skepticism about whether the administration will take this work seriously, and there are real disagreements between the patient community and those now leading federal health agencies around COVID policies more generally. But Stone says long COVID patients just don't have the luxury to sit this out over the next four years.

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Good morning. Oh, thanks so much. Yeah, this is great.

Good morning. Oh, thanks so much. Yeah, this is great.

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Yeah. So there's a piece of this that is political. Housing First was pretty bipartisan under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But over the past few years, activists and think tanks on the political right have been pretty successful at branding this philosophy as left coded or liberal coded. But there's another element to this backlash that's actually much more interesting to me.

Yeah. So there's a piece of this that is political. Housing First was pretty bipartisan under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But over the past few years, activists and think tanks on the political right have been pretty successful at branding this philosophy as left coded or liberal coded. But there's another element to this backlash that's actually much more interesting to me.