At the Long COVID Foundation, our mission is to bring awareness to the public regarding Long COVID & other pandemic related issues, advocate for better testing, trials, & treatments for Long COVID, and take action in assisting COVID Long Haulers, and others affected by the pandemic, which includes putting forth campaigns to aid in the mitigation of COVID and other actions. We are big believers that COVID Viral Persistence and COVID Spike Persistence should be a main focus of researchers and others. In order to regain health it's important to get to the root cause of an illness and treat it. It would be less than ideal for the Long COVID Community to go through what those with Chronic Lyme and other chronic conditions have gone through. Especially with all the research already available showing persistence of COVID, viral RNA, & spike protein. This is one of the main reasons the Long COVID Foundation was formed. Tens of millions of people have, or have had, Long COVID in the United States alone, where we are based. We don't not want them to fall by the wayside like so many millions with chronic illness have in the decades prior to COVID. Enough is enough. We need better commercially available testing and better treatments to eliminate these chronic pathogens and do what's needed to heal these chronic illnesses. Assisting people to regain their health is our main goal. We understand the complexity and hurdles of that, but we will do what we can to help.