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Research

Making progress toward recovery

The RECOVER Initiative brings together scientists, clinicians, patients, community members, and caregivers to find answers to important questions about Long COVID.

Explore RECOVER Research

RECOVER Research Publications

RECOVER Research Publications

Read the latest published Long COVID research from RECOVER studies.

RECOVER Research Components

RECOVER Research Components

Learn how 5 different types of studies form the core of RECOVER’s research efforts.

How Research Works

How Research Works

Learn about the guidelines and basic steps all RECOVER studies follow.

Progress takes the best science.

RECOVER is collecting data from many patients across the country. This data is informing:

  • Observational cohort and electronic health record (EHR) studies that use health data to understand how people are experiencing Long COVID.
  • Pathobiology, tissue pathology, and autopsy studies that examine tissues from research participants to understand changes inside the body.
  • Clinical trials that test different treatments for symptoms experienced by patient participants with Long COVID.

By exploring different ways COVID affects people’s bodies and looking at which treatments may be effective, we can better understand Long COVID. We will then combine all of these data to help answer big questions about Long COVID.

Each type of RECOVER cohort study follows a detailed study plan called a research protocol. These protocols ensure that RECOVER researchers at each cohort study site follow the same guidelines and steps. This consistency lets us combine data from cohort studies taking place at different locations. Combining study data in this way helps us get answers to important questions faster.

We designed RECOVER so that each type of study offers different kinds of information that, when combined, will help us understand, diagnose, prevent, and treat Long COVID. Similarly, we include different groups of people, known as cohorts, in RECOVER cohort studies. These groups include adults, children and their caregivers, and pregnant women and their newborn babies. Including people from different backgrounds and walks of life in RECOVER cohorts helps us understand how the long-term effects of COVID can be different for everyone.

RECOVER clinical trials use platform protocols that help researchers work more efficiently and get answers for more people faster. Platform protocols that allow researchers to study different possible treatments at the same time. Platform protocols also allow researchers to add new potential treatments to ongoing clinical trials.

All of Us

The NIH All of Us Research Program is building one of the largest and most diverse health databases in history. By studying health information from people of all backgrounds, researchers using All of Us data can learn more about what makes people sick and keeps them healthy.

The All of Us Researcher Workbench offers authorized researchers access to the COVID-19 Participant Experience (COPE) survey, electronic health record (EHR), wearable, and genetic data.

The All of Us Data Browser offers anyone access to aggregate-level data from those sources.

Access the Data Browser

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