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  • Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe

    Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe

    Jamie Ducharme

    Long COVID, which has affected more than 400 million people around the world, is often underreported, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Read more…

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    Event announcement: COVID-19 spreads year round. Here’s how to track it.

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    National COVID-19 trends, April 14

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    Miles W. Griffis

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Policy & Advocacy

  • A section of the AIDS quilt, featuring tributes to people who died of the disease. Each one is a colorful rectangle with the person's name, details about their life, and graphics. The section for activist Ryan White is black with green letters and a white candle.
    January 14, 2025

    Immune system damage from COVID-19 is different from HIV/AIDS — but the advocacy has parallels

  • Organizer Abby Mahler poses next to a blue wagon full of high-quality masks. N95 masks in different shapes and colors are visible, such as 3M Auras. Mahler is wearing a N95 and giving a peace sign.
    January 10, 2025

    COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke

  • January 6, 2025

    How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

  • Portrait of Dr. Gemma Carey, with a forest green background
    December 23, 2024

    Dr. Gemma Carey, Australian public health scholar and Long COVID advocate, dies at 43

  • December 18, 2024

    California Governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency for bird flu

  • This edited graphic shows the faces of several Trump picks for top federal government agencies, such as RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya, arranged in a circle around a diagram of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Trump's face is in the center. The background of the image is a mashup of newspaper columns.
    November 26, 2024

    “Don’t give up hope”: Long COVID advocates and researchers say crucial work will continue under Trump

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Science

  • A photo of white, circular pills with a shifted, overlay filter with yellows, blues, and reds.
    September 2, 2025

    Research updates, September 2

  • Collage graphic showing a chicken on the left, with an orange filter, a cow on the right, in black and white, and a cutout of a farmworker's silhouette in the center.
    August 27, 2025

    Despite waning headlines, bird flu is still a threat. Here’s how you can help farmworkers.

  • August 22, 2025

    The crisis is “exasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina

  • A bright collage of orange, turquoise, and terracotta that includes captivating, pink hollyhock flowers, a person with long hair in a high quality mask, ristras (red, dried chili peppers) and a black and white poster for the keystone symposia for Long COVID and other post-acute infection syndromes.
    August 19, 2025

    “The field is coming of age”: Long COVID researchers gather in Santa Fe to foster collaboration

  • A microscopic computer illustration of the aspergillus fungus. It appears like a protea flower mixed with an anenome, made up of bright red, yellow, and green "flowers" with red stems. It is very psychadelic and captivating.
    August 19, 2025

    Research updates, August 19

  • Collage graphic showing a monoclonal antibody infusion in progress (in blue) on the left and a pile of antiviral pills (in orange) on the right. Behind these images, there's a background showing a microscope image of SARS-CoV-2.
    August 12, 2025

    No “easy home runs”: Early Long COVID trials of Paxlovid and monoclonal antibodies failed, but the treatments still have potential

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Covid-19

  • Line chart from the CDC, titled: "Percentage of Emergency Department (ED) Visits Diagnosed as COVID-19, by Week, in The United States, Reported to CDC." The share of weekly ED visits diagnosed as COVID are represented with an orange line. The Y axis represents the % of weekly visits, and the X axis represents time, spanning December 2022 through May 2025. The chart shows several COVID-19 waves, and most recently shows the winter 2024-25 wave followed by a slow decline in COVID-caused ED visits. In the most recent week of data, this value went back up slightly.
    June 10, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 10

  • Line chart from Biobot Analytics titled, "Regional SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations." The chart includes four lines, each representing SARS-CoV-2 trends for one region of the U.S.: pink for the South, purple for the Midwest, green for the West, gold for the Northeast. The X axis represents time, spanning February 2024 to May 2025, and the Y axis represents effective concentration of SARS-CoV-2, copies/mL. All regions have experienced COVID-19 waves in winter 2023-24, summer 2024, and winter 2024-25. In recent weeks, levels have declined in all regions except for the West, where they have been slowly increasing.
    June 3, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 3

  • A group of advocates standing in front of Los Angeles City Hall, an imposing white building with palm trees out front. Everyone in the group is wearing high-quality masks, and advocates toward the front hold a banner with the words, "Lie Down 4 Long Covid."
    June 2, 2025

    Los Angeles’ $13M COVID-19 relief funds could go to building upgrades, not Long COVID care

  • A map of the U.S. by state, with states color-coded according to estimates of recent COVID-19 trends. Text above the map reads: "COVID-19: As of May 20, 2025, we estimate that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 4 states, declining or likely declining in 18 states, and not changing in 21 states." There are four states colored in light purple (for "likely growing") or dark purple (for "growing"): Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida. 18 states are colored in shades of teal for "declining or likely declining," and 21 states are colored in gray for "not changing." A few remaining states are colored in white for "not estimated."
    May 27, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, May 27

  • A screenshot of two CDC charts, one on the left is a bar chart and on the right is a table. The bar chart is titled: "Weighted and Nowcast Estimates in the United States for 2-Week Periods in 1/19/2025 to 5/10/2025." Below, it shows eight bars, each representing a two-week period. Every bar has color-coded sections corresponding to different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The right-most two bars are shaded in gray to indicate that they are modeled estimates for recent weeks, with data subject to change. The table on the right is titled, "Nowcast Estimates in United States for 4/27/2025 to 5/10/2025." It shows variant estimates for the most recent two-week period, with colors corresponding to the bars on the left. Variant LP.8.1, in bright orange, has dominated the variant landscape for most recent weeks, overtaking XEC, in green. However, a new variant called XFC, in brown, is now gaining ground, estimated to cause 9% of new cases in the most recent two-week period.
    May 20, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, May 20

  • Line chart, titled "Regional SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations." The X axis represents time, going from January 2024 to May 2025, and the Y axis represents average SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater, labeled "effective concentration, copies/mL." The chart includes four lines for the four U.S. regions: West in green, South in pink, Midwest in purple, Northeast in yellow. All four regions experienced surges in winter 2023-'24, summer 2024, and winter 2024-'25, followed by a slow decline through the latest data in early May. The West, which saw a lower winter surge this year, reported a slight increase in viral levels in the latest data.
    May 13, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, May 13

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Health

  • A patient room inside a medical facility, mostly taken up by a cushioned board with straps at the sides, a pillow at one end, and a platform at the other. Off to one side is a shelf with monitors and other medical instruments.
    April 8, 2025

    “It’s like torture”: The tilt table test could be risky for many people with Long COVID

  • Many baby chickens clustered together in a poultry farm
    April 1, 2025

    What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk

  • Portrait of two women famers carrying saplings on their heads
    March 14, 2025

    “There is no money to survive”: Long COVID pushes India’s marginalized workers deeper into poverty

  • Graphic shows a medical provider wearing a KN95 mask and sitting at a monitor, with a red-pink-purple-blue gradient and outwardly-radiating lines in the background
    February 28, 2025

    A lack of provider literacy is straining people with Long COVID. Training programs for doctors could help.

  • February 21, 2025

    Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID 

  • A graphic based on Mexico's flag: green, white, and red stripes with an image of an eagle eating a snake on a cactus in the center. The red stripe is made up of many copies of the virus SARS-CoV-2.
    February 18, 2025

    Without clear clinical guidelines in México, people with Long COVID face gaslighting and erasure

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Commentary

  • ID: Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman in her early 50s, wears a black blouse and black and white pants. She rocks a rich red lipstick and has a watermelon pin on her shirt in support of Palestine. She has a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator.
    April 10, 2026

    Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger

  • An aerial photograph displays a small wood cabin beside a meadow surrounded by a forest. It is a snowy scene, and late day light casts long shadows of evergreen and deciduous trees.
    April 7, 2026

    I moved into a tiny home in the woods after getting Long COVID.

  • The image is a selfie of Marcia Doherty, a woman who sits in a medical bed in a medical facility. She wears a blue and white striped hat, stylish tan glasses, an white N95 mask, and a white and black t-shirt.
    March 20, 2026

    Marcia: Life with severe ME is like screaming into the void

  • Graphic highlighting the cover of the PLRC-RTHM Long COVID Treatment Guide, featuring both organizations' logos and text sharing the guide's title. Behind the cover, there is a zoomed-in image of a blister pack holding pills.
    March 12, 2026

    A new aid in the doctor’s office: Introducing the Long COVID Treatment Guide

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The Sick Times is an independent news site founded by journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis. We report on the Long COVID crisis, COVID-19, and infection-associated illnesses.

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