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The quiet $8 billion crisis: long COVID costs keep rising as Washington looks away

NIH grants canceled, the federal office shuttered, clinics closing — the government is turning its eyes elsewhere as 44 million suffer.

24.05.2026 7

Fortune

Bruce y. Lee

Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce

The US lacks the capacity to treat long COVID, and HHS defunding is taking the country further away from being able to handle the country’s growing...

21.05.2026 9

The Conversation

Bruce y. Lee

What Is Legionnaires’ Disease? NYC Outbreak Has Left 70 Sick, 3 Dead

A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City has already left at least 70 people sick and three dead. All of these cases have occured in...

07.08.2025 10

Forbes

Bruce y. Lee