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  • What is the federal government currently doing about Long COVID?

    What is the federal government currently doing about Long COVID?

    Melanie Marich

    In this episode of Still Here, hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk about the latest updates from the US Department of Health and Human Services and their efforts on Long COVID, as well as the criticisms they face from members of the community. Subscribe to Still Here wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review, telling us what you think of this episode. Read more…

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  • U.S. scientists sequence 1,000 genomes from measles, a disease long eliminated with vaccines
    Health, Science
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    U.S. scientists sequence 1,000 genomes from measles, a disease long eliminated with vaccines

  • “Not a whole lot of substance”: HHS posts Long COVID website, six months after making big promises
    Policy & Advocacy
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    “Not a whole lot of substance”: HHS posts Long COVID website, six months after making big promises

  • National COVID-19 trends, March 31
    COVID-19
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    National COVID-19 trends, March 31

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Policy & Advocacy

  • October 29, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 3

  • A TV split-screen view shows Martha, who has medium length hair and glasses and wears a yellow and white shirt. She asks her question in the audience of a tv station set. Harris stands on the floor of the station wearing a black shirt and a brown blazer.
    October 11, 2024

    Kamala Harris responds to voter with Long COVID

  • October 8, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 2

  • Portrait of Tinu Abayomi-Paul
    October 4, 2024

    Tinu Abayomi-Paul, writer, disability advocate, and person with Long COVID, dies at 52

  • September 24, 2024

    Millions of Americans have Long COVID. Will Kamala Harris acknowledge them?

  • Collage showing a crate of rapid at-home COVID-19 tests, a map of mask bloc locations, a box of 3M N95 respirators, and a flyer from a mask bloc in Nassau County and Queens, New York introducing how mask blocs distribute free high-quality masks in their communities
    September 10, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 1

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Science

  • A cute white mouse perches on the side of a plastic bowl on a metal table in a research lab. The mouse has pink ears, nose, feet, and a long tail.
    August 5, 2025

    Research updates, August 5

  • Graphic with a background of a map of Easter Island, one of the island's famous statues showing a human face in the center, a colorful depiction of a molecule on the left, and a sheet of green pills on the right
    July 29, 2025

    Clinical trials are testing cancer drug rapamycin for Long COVID and ME

  • "Anatomical diagram showing different parts of the human neck
    July 29, 2025

    Research updates, July 29

  • Graphic showing the top of Berlin's TV Tower, edited to look like part of an IV tube. The graphic has a light blue background with white molecular structure diagrams in the top left.
    July 22, 2025

    Berlin Cures’ failed Long COVID clinical trial yields lessons on study design

  • A siamese cat with blue eyes wears a cone after a presumed trip to the vet
    July 22, 2025

    Research updates, July 22

  • close up of hands holding glucose meter
    July 15, 2025

    Research updates, July 15

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Covid-19

  • Graphic showing a cartoon figure in a mask, with shapes of several states (Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama) around them and a backdrop of colorful tape strips.
    April 18, 2025

    Missives from the dismissed: Still COVIDing without community

  • Chart from the CDC. Text at the top reads: "This chart shows national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels of SARS-COV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19)." The chart shows the past year of data, April 2024 to April 2025. National trends are shown with a black line, and regional trends are in different colors: yellow for the Midwest, purple for the South, light blue for the Northeast, teal for the West. All four regions had significant COVID-19 waves in summer 2024 and winter 2024-25; the winter wave led to less disease spread at its peak but was longer, and current disease levels are now higher than they were at this time last year.
    April 15, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 15

  • 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 chart's X axis is time, spanning November 2022 to March 2025, and the Y axis is the percent of emergency department (ED) visits diagnosed as COVID-19. The chart shows COVID-19 waves in winter 2022-23, summer 2023, winter 2023-24, summer 2024, and winter 2024-25. Following the latest wave, the % of ED visits diagnosed as COVID-19 has been stuck at a relatively high plateau, with the most recent value (over 0.5%) higher than the lows in between past waves.
    April 8, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 8

  • Map of New York State, with a variety of colored dots representing wastewater testing sites. The dots are colored according to SARS-CoV-2 detection level, with red/orange shades for higher levels and blue shades for lower levels. In the most recent data, 40 sites report higher levels (including many in NYC and Long Island, as well as Western NY), 60 report moderate levels, 15 report low levels, and the remaining 54 do not have recent data available.
    April 1, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 1

  • A set of four charts, titled "Regional Wastewater Concentrations." All four are line charts showing data from November 2023 through March 2025, with colored lines representing the four U.S. regions: yellow for Northeast, purple for Midwest, green for West, pink for South. The influenza A, influenza B, and RSV charts show clear waves over winter 2023-24 and 2024-25; the COVID-19 chart also shows a summer 2024 wave.
    March 25, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, March 25

  • Line chart titled, "SARS-CoV-2, All Wastewater Sites." The chart shows the national average of coronavirus readings in wastewater from across the U.S., representing sites in WWSCAN's network. The Y axis represents quantity of nucleic acids (PPMoV Normalized, x1 million) and the Y axis represents time, going from October 2023 to March 2025. It shows a major wave in winter 2023-24, a smaller wave in summer 2024, and then another smaller but longer wave in winter 2024-25, now plateaued at a moderate level.
    March 18, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, March 18

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Health

  • A screenshot of a CDC error page reading, "The page you're looking for was not found," with a red X drawn over it and a red background.
    January 31, 2025

    Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order

  • An image of two people talking while wearing KN95 masks, against a background with a light green and white pattern
    January 30, 2025

    The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

  • A bright red and yellow graphic. At the center is a circular cut-out of text from the Affordable Care Act, with X-s for eyes and a mouth on top of it in drawn in black lines, and red spikes around the edges of the circle. There are bolded exclamation points on either sides of the cut-out text.
    January 27, 2025

    As someone with Long COVID, I’m terrified of what could happen to the Affordable Care Act

  • January 23, 2025

    Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters

  • 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

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Commentary

  • ID: Graphic showing an old desktop computer with a pixelated red umbrella, an international symbol for sex worker rights, on the screen. The image's background is black with white pixels.
    January 6, 2026

    Long COVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers

  • December 19, 2025

    Telehealth is vital for people with Long COVID. Don’t let it disappear.

  • December 9, 2025

    Doctors who refuse to engage with administrative work are abandoning their poorest and sickest patients

  • November 28, 2025

    You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.

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