This question will resolve based on https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/ + any specific budgets.
The 2020-approved RECOVER budget of $1.15Bln. counts only until 2024.
The predicted spending for 2024 is currently (Nov '23) $80M.
1,000
3.00Sanders introduced a Moonshot bill:
Would yield 1 billion for 10 years, but I strongly doubt it will pass, unless the Long Covid community has a really effective advocacy campaign. Of course, it could also be watered down and still yield a substantial (and more reasonable) budget
@JRP @SawyerBlatz
https://recovercovid.org/updates/nih-to-bolster-RECOVER-Long-COVID-research-efforts
Seems like it will be 100M+ unless something really weird happens in Congress. (Seems unlikely but can only speculate on something like a Republican overhaul of NIH causing some type of administrative chaos?)