Democrats in the U.S. Senate slammed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for cutting biomedical research and public health programs at the committee hearing. Chairman Cassidy sought assurances that NIH would continue to study Long Covid. Kennedy responded that his own son is struggling with Long Covid and said: “The [Long] Covid office was cut by an executive order from the White House. But … everybody at NIH and CDC is committed to these kinds of studies, and I can tell you personally, I will make sure that they happen.”

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