
46. Could Long Covid Help Treat Other Chronic Illnesses?
Freakonomics, M.D.
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The Biggest Barrier to Increasing the Funding of Medical Research
In 20 14, ronald shifted his labs focus to m c f s. The biggest problem is, of course, there's not very much money. A lot of researchers will work a little bit on it, but they can't really fund their entire lab because of the lack of funding. There was an outcry from the community that n i h was not doing enough. Doctor collins asked the tute directors, what are we doing for research on m a c f s? And that led to conversations that indicated that we really needed to up our game and initiate a study. Out of that effort came an inhouse study of m e c f s that did extensive testing of 20
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