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    With her #PodSaveJon campaign, she helped deliver one of the Long COVID movement’s best moments. Read more…

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Policy & Advocacy

  • September 23, 2025

    Letter to the editors: Concerns about California’s right-to-mask bill

  • September 18, 2025

    Kennedy’s HHS commits to Long COVID, but without clear funding

  • A graphic showing white KN94 masks and yellow and white megaphones in a neat pattern that alternates the two objects. The background is a dark navy.
    September 2, 2025

    How do you get people to care about COVID-19? Here’s what I’ve learned as an organizer.

  • Collage graphic, including a portrait of UK Work and Pensions Minister Sir Stephen Timms, a photo of Sheffield Hallam University's campus, and a photo of advocates from Not Recovered UK raising awareness about ME and Long COVID. The collage also includes screenshots of web pages about disability benefits.
    July 15, 2025

    Left without care: Many Long COVID clinics are closing down in the U.K.

  • A portrait of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., colored in red, with a graphical representation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind him.
    June 19, 2025

    The federal government is restricting COVID-19 vaccine access. Here’s what that means for the ongoing pandemic and people with Long COVID.

  • A person sits cross-legged on a city sidewalk, huddled in a winter coat. They hold a cardboard sign that reads: "COVID sucks, hard and lonely times, thank you." There is a white bucket sitting in front of them, reading: "Anything helps, thank you, God bless."
    June 17, 2025

    Long COVID is increasing housing insecurity, but support programs fail to help

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Science

  • A 3D science illustration of a mitochondrion, the organelle that produces energy. It appears blue and white in the shape of a bean. Orange and red inner membranes glow.
    January 6, 2026

    Research updates, January 6

  • December 23, 2025

    Research updates, December 23

  • A close up photo of the back of an ambulance. The colorful blue and orange painted on the vehicle contrast are emphasized by a partly cloudy sky.
    December 16, 2025

    Research updates, December 16

  • December 16, 2025

    Despite Long COVID’s ongoing impact, research in Colombia is limited

  • A microscope image shows a close up of red blood cells and lymphocytes, or, white blood cells. The red blood cells are pink and round and dominate the slide, while the white blood cells, only five of them, appear bright purple and round.
    December 9, 2025

    Research updates, December 9

  • December 2, 2025

    Research updates, December 2

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Covid-19

  • Line chart titled, "Vaccination rates in the U.S., fall 2025." The chart has four lines representing estimated vaccination rates: flu vaccines in adults and children (purple solid line and purple dashed line, respectively), and COVID-19 vaccines in adults and children (teal solid line and teal dashed line). The purple lines representing flu vaccines are much higher, going up toward 40%, than the teal lines representing COVID-19 vaccines. In the latest estimate, for November 22, only 15% of adults and 6% of children have received COVID-19 vaccines. Text below the title notes: "CDC estimates based on survey data from the National Immunization Survey-Fall Respiratory Virus Module, as of December 1, 2025."
    December 2, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, December 2

  • Chart from the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System showing national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels for SARS-CoV-2 over the last six months. The Y axis represents the CDC's activity level score, going from "very low" to "very high." The national trend is represented in black, the Midwest in yellow, South in purple, Northeast in light blue, and West in teal. All four U.S. regions and the national average saw a summer wave from July through September 2025, followed by a lower period in October. Levels have started to increase in the most recent 2-3 weeks of data, especially for the Midwest and Northeast. A note below the chart reads: "Data from the most recent two weeks may be incomplete due to delays in data reporting. These data sets are subject to change and are indicated by the gray shading."
    November 25, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 25

  • Two maps of the U.S., with states color-coded according to whether infections are growing, declining, or not changing. The map on the left shows COVID-19 trends and the one on the right shows flu trends. In both maps, dark purple represents "growing" cases, lighter purple represents "likely growing," gray represents "not changing," light teal represents "likely declining," dark teal represents "declining," and white represents "not estimated." The COVID-19 map includes 20 states colored in shades of purple, 9 in shades of teal, and the remainder in gray or white. On the flu map, 39 states are colored in purple for "growing or likely growing." Text above the maps notes that these are estimates as of November 11. Text below the maps shares national trends: "The weekly percentage of ED visits diagnosed with COVID-19 is very low. The COVID-19 epidemic trend is not changing. Probability COVID-19 epidemic is growing: 56.23% (not changing)" and for flu, "The weekly percentage of ED visits diagnosed with Influenza is low. The Influenza epidemic trend is growing. Probability Influenza epidemic is growing: 99.80% (growing)"
    November 18, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 18

  • Two line charts from the Maine CDC showing trends in emergency room visits. Text at the top reads: "Percentage of weekly statewide emergency room visits with symptoms, complaints, or diagnoses suggesting respiratory disease. These are not confirmed cases. Figures come from Maine's syndromic surveillance system. They represent rough estimates of the burden of particular syndromes or conditions and should not be interpreted to be exact." Both charts include timeframes from September 1, 2024 to November 1, 2025 with time on the X axis. The Y axis represents share of ER visits that are attributed to potential conditions. The top chart represents potential COVID-19 visits and the bottom one represents flu-like symptoms. Both diseases had waves in winter 2024-25, then COVID-19 had an increase in late summer 2025, and both saw increases in October.
    November 11, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 11

  • November 4, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 4

  • Line chart from Biobot Analytics titled, "Regional SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations." The X axis represents time, spanning June 2024 to October 2025, and the Y axis represents effective concentration of SARS-CoV-2, copies/mL. There are four lines for the four regions of the U.S. All regions had COVID-19 waves in summer 2024, winter 2024-25, and summer 2025, but magnitudes varied by region. As of mid-October 2025, SARS-CoV-2 levels are trending down in all four regions, and are higher in the Northeast (yellow) and West (green) than the South (pink) and Midwest (purple).
    October 28, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, October 28

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Health

  • November 15, 2025

    Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51

  • An arial photo of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and nearby waters near Promontory Point. A road bisects the photo and cuts through the saline valley.
    November 7, 2025

    As the American West faces increasing air pollution, protecting the right to mask is vital

  • Students, competition judges, and organizer Armani Guerra pose behind a large yellow M in an event space at the University of Michigan. The four students hold up a check representing their top prize from the competition.
    November 4, 2025

    Business school competition centers Long COVID and IACCs

  • October 28, 2025

    Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used?

  • October 25, 2025

    NBA player Kristaps Porziņģis shares POTS diagnosis

  • October 24, 2025

    Shutdown leaves gaps in states’ health data, possibly endangering lives

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Commentary

  • November 5, 2024

    We set out to make our ‘invisible illness’ visible in South Africa with SICK Pride

  • This graphic shows a pair of hands holding a pregnancy test. The image is slightly pixelated and oscillating between different colors, as though the person looking at the test is experiencing gaps in their vision.
    October 28, 2024

    Why aren’t public health officials telling people about the fertility cost of COVID-19 and Long COVID?

  • A collage of charts from the NIH ME/CFS intramural study showing differences between healthy volunteers and ME/CFS participants. The image includes an emoji giving air quotes and the term "effort preference" in bold black letters.
    September 27, 2024

    Five reasons why the NIH should retract the “effort preference” claims in their intramural ME/CFS paper

  • September 9, 2024

    The first major novel on Long COVID falls for harmful tropes. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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