Opinion: Biden’s long Covid plan is a good start. But it needs to go further
Two-and-a-half years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the Biden administration released its national action plan to address longer-term impacts of Covid-19, which include orphaned children, bereavement, and the disabling condition known as long Covid that is accompanying the disease. The plan offers a good start for addressing long Covid, but leaves much undone.
The whole-of-government plan, published in early August, sketches out how to reckon with the long-term effects of Covid-19 that will weigh on health systems and the economy for decades to come. The report rightly notes that long Covid has “resulted in decreased employment and billions of dollars in lost income,” is a driver of the current labor shortage, and contributes to high inflation.
