The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) held a three-day workshop to assess the landscape of long COVID clinical studies and develop plans for the RECOVER-TLC clinical trials program.
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Fig. 1: RECOVER-TLC: Navigating the Pathway Forward workshop.
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Breen, J.J., Eisinger, R.W., Read, S.W. et al. Navigating the path forward for evidence-based management of long COVID. Nat Immunol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-025-02118-6
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