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Join the Fight for Medicaid & Telehealth

We want to provide you with an update about where we stand with the federal administration massively cutting Medicaid and threatening to get rid of Telehealth extensions. We are so grateful for the actions that you have taken with us to fight to protect Medicaid and Telehealth but we still have a long road ahead

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Office of Long COVID at HHS Closing

Ian Simon, the head of the Long COVID Office at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released the following statement to coworkers: Dear Colleagues, We are writing to let you know that the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will be closing as part of the administration’s reorganization coming this week. We are

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Trump Cuts Funding for ME/CFS Centers at Columbia University

We are writing to you with an urgent call to action. The Trump administration has cut funding for the Center for Solutions for ME/CFS at Columbia University as part of a broader $400 million funding termination at the university. This devastating decision includes the loss of NIH funding for one of the nation’s few Collaborative Research

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Long COVID Awareness Day

#MEAction has been fighting alongside the Long COVID community since 2020 – we know that our futures are inextricably linked.

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