Table 2

National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for COVID-19 by clinical/scientific area (2020)*

	Number of grants	Dollars spent, US$	Percent of COVID-19 funding, %	Percent of NIH annual funding, %
Social determinants of health	278	188 229 016	8.52	0.42
Immunology	211	570 461 693	25.82	1.26
Pharmaceutical interventions	208	1 051 790 057	47.61	2.32
Impacts on other disease	133	40 865 572	1.85	0.09
Diagnosis and testing	132	186 846 477	8.46	0.41
Risk factor analysis	111	55 501 547	2.51	0.12
Non-pharmaceutical interventions	104	115 971 759	5.25	0.26
Paediatric health	92	63 635 942	2.88	0.14
Transmission	83	77 675 659	3.52	0.17
Other research	83	515 823 132	23.35	1.14
Virology	79	33 601 202	1.52	0.07
Geriatric health	68	467 815 039	21.17	1.03
Neurology	64	21 705 014	0.98	0.05
Pulmonology	61	37 068 124	1.68	0.08
Maternal health	41	19 633 841	0.89	0.04
Gastroenterology	31	12 081 004	0.55	0.03
Cardiology	18	32 997 172	1.49	0.07
Nephrology	14	8 386 775	0.38	0.02