{"id":8931,"date":"2025-03-12T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:55:09","slug":"5-years-since-the-pandemic-started-long-covid-patients-are-still-hoping-for-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/12\/5-years-since-the-pandemic-started-long-covid-patients-are-still-hoping-for-a-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5324690\/long-covid-pandemic-treatments-research\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. But many patients with long COVID have yet to find meaningful recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 6% of adults in the U.S. \u2014<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>or roughly 18 million \u2014 are estimated to be living with the damaging aftermath of catching the virus, according to research and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/covid19\/pulse\/long-covid.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long-running survey<\/a>&nbsp;of U.S households, although numbers are still difficult to pin down because the definitions vary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s not a thing of the past \u2014 new patients are still showing up in doctor&#8217;s offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5324690\/long-covid-pandemic-treatments-research\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" BXWX Q\"> BXWX Q<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR It&#8217;s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. But many patients with long COVID have yet to find meaningful recovery. Around 6% of adults in the U.S. \u2014&nbsp;or roughly 18 million \u2014 are estimated to be living with the damaging aftermath of catching the virus, according to research and a&nbsp;long-running survey&nbsp;of U.S [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid5@3x-100.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}