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1) A new study estimated the disability and prevalence of Long Covid and compared it to NIH research funding. Long Covid should receive $740 million per year, but it only gets 14%-50% of that amount, depending on how you count. ME/CFS only gets 1% of its proportional funding...

3) For Long Covid, the disability weight was 0.21 (0 equals full health, 1 equals death). It's equivalent to that of traumatic brain injury (0.21) and complete hearing loss (0.22), but less than moderate rheumatoid arthritis (0.34), migraine (0.44), and ME/CFS (0.46)

4) If we multiply by the prevalence, we get the 'years lived with disability (YLDs)' per 100,000 U.S. adults. For Long Covid, this figure was 319, similar to asthma. For ME/CFS, it was 598.

5) RCDC funding listed for Long Covid is $106.3 million, but that doesn't include RECOVER's $1.15 billion. So the authors used a second ('holistic') estimate that added $287.5 ($1.15 billion/4 years). But even this holistic estimate is only half of YLD-commensurate funding.