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  • Department of Defense funds $8 million grant for Long COVID trials

    Department of Defense funds $8 million grant for Long COVID trials

    Betsy Ladyzhets

    A new U.S. clinical trials program called PROBE-PASC was announced on Friday at a Long COVID conference in Amsterdam. The program received initial funding of $8 million from a Department of Defense (DOD) grant. Read more…

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    National COVID-19 trends, August 20

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    National Covid-19 trends, August 13

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