Father, Long Covid Patients Plead with US Senate for More Research Funding, Sen. Tim Kaine

CBS News6, Virginia Father with Long Covid Pleads for Research Funding Jan. 24, 2024, Ed

Bolecek: 'My body just slowly shut down. I got so weak that I could barely walk from by bed to the bathroom. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't think.'

RICHMOND, Va. -- John Bolecek's family loves being outdoors. "I was a huge cyclist, I built my career off of it," Bolecek said. "I mean, I love to be interactive with my kids too. We would ride bikes down to Belle Isle to the kid's mountain bike skills course all the time.".. About two years ago, Bolecek's family was infected with COVID-19. He explained he was vaccinated and boosted at the time, only suffered a mild infection, and expected to eventually get over the infection. He never did.

"I started waking up feeling like I hadn't gone to sleep at all," he explained. "So I would sleep eight solid hours, and then wake up and I was like, 'I feel horrible right now. And that feeling has never gone away.".. "It's been very challenging getting medical care," he explained. "There's no specialist for Long COVID...
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/john-bolecek-long-covid-research-funding-jan-24-2024
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- Patients struck by long COVID plead with U.S. Senate panel for more research funding, Nebraska Examiner, Jan. 18, 2024. https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/01/18/patients-struck-by-long-covid-plead-with-u-s-senate-panel-for-more-research-funding/
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- United States Senator Tim M. Kaine (D-Va.) discussed his experience with prolonged health problems from Covid-19 and his work pushing for public health-related bills in the Senate in an online stream through the Harvard School of Public Health Tuesday. The Harvard Crimson, Oct. 26, 2022.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/26/senator-kaine-hsph-virtual-talk/