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  • Bezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results

    Bezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results

    Betsy Ladyzhets

    While the phase 2 clinical trial results, shared by BioVie in a webinar on Tuesday, have yet to be peer-reviewed, investigators say they can inform a confirmatory phase 3 trial. Read more…

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Policy & Advocacy

Science

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    April 15, 2025

    Research updates, April 15

  • 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

  • Photo of a box of Paxlovid tablets. The packaging is a box with blue, pink, and yellow stripes and blue text, with instructions about how to take the medication. Next to the box, there's an example of a gold sheet with three pills.
    April 8, 2025

    Research updates, April 8

  • Portrait of Lisa McCorkell, with a backdrop of flowers
    April 7, 2025

    Lisa McCorkell reflects on five years of Long COVID research, and leaving PLRC

  • 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

  • a girl wearing a face mask looking outside the bus window
    April 1, 2025

    Research updates, April 1

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Covid-19

  • October 29, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 3

  • October 29, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 29

  • October 22, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 22

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    October 15, 2024

    Research updates, October 15

  • Line chart showing SARS-CoV-2 levels over time for the U.S. nationally (black line) and four major regions (Northeast in bright green, South in yellow-green, Midwest in red, West in blue). Following increases over the summer, viral levels are decreasing in all four regions.
    October 15, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 15

  • October 14, 2024

    Filmmaker Jesse Ridgway shares experience with Long COVID with millions of followers

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Health

  • January 9, 2024

    New CDC data identify more than 5,000 Long Covid deaths, but tally is likely a significant undercount

  • black woman patient in mask looking away in light room
    December 12, 2023

    HHS gave million-dollar grants to nine Long Covid clinics; here’s how they plan to use the funding

  • man wearing red ribbon
    December 5, 2023

    HIV may increase the risk of Long Covid. Why aren’t major advocacy groups addressing it?

  • December 5, 2023

    Project N95 ending mask store, free distributions by the end of 2023

  • November 21, 2023

    What’s happening this week, November 21

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Commentary

  • A graphic shows a white woman in a high quality mask on the subway. She wears a glasses, hoops, and has a short hair. Overlaid over the black and white photo are various shades of pink circles.
    August 14, 2026

    Breast cancer exposed the lack of care I receive for Long COVID

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    August 8, 2026

    “This exhaustion is cellular”: Excerpts from the new book ‘What Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Like?’

  • A group of people walk in the streets of San Francisco on a sunny day in 1986 holding a large white banner that reads, "People with AIDS Alliance." Some wear hats and sunglasses, others hold white, blue, green, and purple balloons.
    August 4, 2026

    There’s a long history of person-first language in advocacy. Here’s why we should use it for Long COVID.

  • Collage graphic with two dark silhouettes, one of a young man and one of a young woman, against a background photo of a school hallway, with linoleum walls and red lockers on either side of the image.
    July 24, 2026

    The (sick) kids aren’t alright: Observations from a teacher with Long COVID

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