HHS Releases Long COVID Report Providing Insights and Opportunities to Support Patients
Published November 21, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Health+ Long COVID Report highlighting patients’ experience of Long COVID to better understand its complexities and drive creative responses by government leaders, clinicians, patient advocates and others.
The Health+ Long COVID Report builds on the President’s Memorandum on Addressing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 and the two previously issued HHS Long COVID reports.
The report:
- Provides recommendations on how to deliver high-quality care, and relevant and intentional resources and supports to individuals and families impacted by Long COVID;
- Compliments the existing landscape of Long COVID scientific literature with the narratives and expertise of caregivers, frontline workers, and people experiencing Long COVID and its associated conditions; and
- Offers a variety of short-term and longer-term recommendations that come directly from the patient experience. For example, insurance providers should update plan guidelines that align coverage with medical treatments that improve health outcomes for people with Long COVID. Employers should support accommodations for people living with Long COVID that allow them to continue to work and study. Federal agencies should disseminate Long COVID messaging to let people know Long COVID is real and is a serious public health issue.