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  • NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

    NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

    Betsy Ladyzhets

    “We understand the frustration and respect it completely,” said NIAID program officer and TLC leader Joseph Breen, when asked about the more than a year that’s gone between RECOVER-TLC trials’ announcement and enrolling participants. Read more…

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    Miles W. Griffis

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

    National COVID-19 trends, November 10

  • Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials
    Policy & Advocacy, Science
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials

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Policy & Advocacy

  • A photograph showing the outside of an office building housing the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in Bethesda, Maryland. The building has orange brick walls and many windows.
    November 10, 2026

    NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

  • November 4, 2026

    Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials

  • In this photo from MEAction's 2025 Millions Missing protest, a speaker seated in a wheelchair speaks into a microphone, with the U.S. Capitol building in the background. She wears a red T-shirt reading "SOS, Millions Missing," and also has a red sweater reading, "Still here, still sick," draped over wheelchair.
    October 30, 2026

    Long COVID disabled millions of workers. Then came Trump 2.0.

  • A graphic shows a black and white aerial view of Carson City, Nevada, where the company BioVie has its headquarters. Overlaid are two images with contrasting yellow and sky blue filters. One shows an x-ray like image of a human head and brain, while a second shows a close up of white pills.
    October 27, 2026

    Novel drug bezisterim plans for further study in Long COVID. Here’s how the phase 2 trial came together.

  • A person in a high quality mask holds a sign at a protest that reads, "Silence=Death" with a trans flag in an equilateral triangle. The person stands in the streets of Los Angeles outside of Children's Hospital Los Angeles during a 2025 protest.
    October 13, 2026

    Trans people with Long COVID navigate a new “dark age” in trans health

  • ME advocate Anil van der Zee holds the Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau medal in his home. He poses with Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema in a darkened room.
    October 2, 2026

    Anil van der Zee receives Dutch royal distinction

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Science

  • A photograph showing the outside of an office building housing the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in Bethesda, Maryland. The building has orange brick walls and many windows.
    November 10, 2026

    NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

  • Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. The round viruses are colored a lime green with sea green spikes, contrasted on a pink background.
    November 10, 2026

    Research updates, November 10

  • November 4, 2026

    Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials

  • Mutaz Barshim presenting high jump co-winner Gianmarco Tamberi with his gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The athletes stand in sweat suits beside a track with a sign reading, "Tokyo 2020." Both are wearing KN95 masks.
    November 3, 2026

    Research updates, November 3

  • A graphic shows a black and white aerial view of Carson City, Nevada, where the company BioVie has its headquarters. Overlaid are two images with contrasting yellow and sky blue filters. One shows an x-ray like image of a human head and brain, while a second shows a close up of white pills.
    October 27, 2026

    Novel drug bezisterim plans for further study in Long COVID. Here’s how the phase 2 trial came together.

  • A scientific illustration shows an x-ray like image of a human heart in a chest. The heart appears white among transparent layers of the chest.
    October 27, 2026

    Research updates, October 27

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Covid-19

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for November 10, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is “high” (represented with red) and slightly increasing (represented with a diagonal up arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is “moderate*” (orange) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and stable (side to side arrow). Text below these metrics reads: “*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions.”
    November 10, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, November 10

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for November 3, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with orange) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "moderate*" (orange) and slightly increasing (diagonal up arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."
    November 3, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, November 3

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for October 27, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with orange) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "low*" (darker yellow) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."
    October 27, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, October 27

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for October 20, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with red) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "moderate*" (orange) and slightly increasing (diagonal up arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."
    October 20, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, October 20

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for October 13, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with orange) and stable (represented with a side to side arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "low*" (darker yellow) and slightly increasing (diagonal up arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and slightly decreasing (diagonal down arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."
    October 13, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, October 13

  • Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for October 6, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with red) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "very low*" (lighter yellow) and significantly decreasing (directly down arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and stable (side to side arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."
    October 6, 2026

    National COVID-19 trends, October 6

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Health

  • In this photo from MEAction's 2025 Millions Missing protest, a speaker seated in a wheelchair speaks into a microphone, with the U.S. Capitol building in the background. She wears a red T-shirt reading "SOS, Millions Missing," and also has a red sweater reading, "Still here, still sick," draped over wheelchair.
    October 30, 2026

    Long COVID disabled millions of workers. Then came Trump 2.0.

  • Frederic Leighton's Victorian painting Flaming June (1895) shows a woman in a bright orange dress sleeping with the Mediterranean sea behind her. The painting is edited into a collage with alternating strips of black and white and the full color painting with repeating panels.
    October 20, 2026

    The real story behind the “October slide”

  • A person in a high quality mask holds a sign at a protest that reads, "Silence=Death" with a trans flag in an equilateral triangle. The person stands in the streets of Los Angeles outside of Children's Hospital Los Angeles during a 2025 protest.
    October 13, 2026

    Trans people with Long COVID navigate a new “dark age” in trans health

  • A graphic shows two images side by side. One shows mobility devices, including many walkers, outside of prison cells. The other shows a red SARS-CoV-2 virus contrasted with a black background.
    September 29, 2026

    I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system.

  • A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy.  She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants.
    September 21, 2026

    COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women

  • Miles  [12:23 PM] ID: A burnt, but surviving Joshua tree stands in the Dome Fire burn scar during sunset. A far away mountain glows in the late day light. Thousands of dead Joshua trees stand on the burnscar among invasive grasses that paint the landscape gold.
    September 8, 2026

    We made a COVID-19 memorial in the ashes of a Joshua tree forest

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Commentary

  • A zoomed-out photograph of a room in an art gallery; across black walls are mounted a row of surgical masks electroplated in nickel. The masks are illuminated with light and reflect brightly in the dark space.
    November 3, 2026

    Why the art of Long COVID and ME can be hard to find

  • Audience members at a conference wear masks while watching a presentation.
    October 19, 2026

    Conferences and advocacy events for IACCs must require masking

  • October 9, 2026

    How I built a COVID-safer school that’s become the heart of a more caring community

  • A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy.  She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants.
    September 21, 2026

    COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women

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