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The NIH failed to select scientists with “an established background in conducting research on post-acute infection syndromes” to lead the initiative, said David Putrino, Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness at Mount Sinai. In their applications, dozens of scientists from NYU and Mass General shared details from their prior research that they believed were most relevant to the program; none mentioned the post-infectious chronic diseases that predate the Covid-19 pandemic and are now commonly diagnosed alongside long Covid, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Instead, the NIH selected for leadership, as Putrino put it, “a bunch of biostatisticians and epidemiologists.”

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