NIH to study Pfiz­er's Paxlovid in long Covid as de­mand — and in­fec­tions — con­tin­ue to fall

Pfiz­er’s Paxlovid will be­come the first treat­ment stud­ied by the NIH for long Covid, the agency said Thurs­day.

The drug will be eval­u­at­ed as part of the NIH’s $1 bil­lion RE­COV­ER pro­gram, with re­searchers try­ing to fig­ure out the cause of the con­di­tion and a way to treat it. Cur­rent­ly, there are more than 200 symp­toms as­so­ci­at­ed with long Covid, in­clud­ing fa­tigue, pain, brain fog and ir­reg­u­lar heart­beat, all of which can per­sist for months or years af­ter Covid-19.

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