Cutbacks Force Long-COVID Clinic Closures: What Now?

Since 2021, the UNC COVID Recovery Clinic served thousands of patients struggling with post-COVID symptoms. But the loss of multiple funding sources forced it to shutter its doors for good over the summer of 2025. This closure underscores the precarious outlook facing other COVID rehabilitation facilities across the US and elsewhere. Directors of other clinics say they may be next, with federal officials drastically cutting funding for health programs. Many clinics are still experiencing waitlists and backlogs, doctors say, even as burned-out staff grapple with worries over the future of its operations.

What It Will Take to Get a Next-Generation COVID Vaccine

Nearly 4 years since the first messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines were developed, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is evolving more quickly than tailored boosters can be made ready and continues to kill hundreds of Americans every week. Scientists around the world have been trying to break new ground with the next generation of vaccines, but the unprecedented speed and collaboration with which those first mRNA shots were developed and made available to the public have not been replicated.

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Pandemic anniversary

For the second anniversary of the pandemic, I spoke with several doctors about the lessons learned and compiled a summary of essential COVID-19 facts and myths about the disease, masks, and vaccines for CTVNews.ca.