2022 was the year long COVID couldn’t be ignored

This year, the world had to face the growing burden of long COVID. A tidal wave of people with lingering symptoms — some mild, some profoundly disabling — commanded attention.

We are in the middle of a mass disabling event,” physician Talya Fleming of the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, N.J., told Science News (SN: 11/5/22, p. 22). A recent estimate suggests that over 18 million people in the United States have long COVID. Yet researchers know little about the disease and how to treat those who are suffering.

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