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  • New AI tools are helping some people manage Long COVID

    New AI tools are helping some people manage Long COVID

    Mohana Ravindranath

    RTHM and TurnTo recently debuted Long COVID intelligence platforms. Some have found them helpful, but others are concerned about AI. Read more…

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  • National COVID-19 trends, December 23
    COVID-19
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    National COVID-19 trends, December 23

  • Research updates, December 23
    Science
    Miles W. Griffis

    Research updates, December 23

  • Telehealth is vital for people with Long COVID. Don’t let it disappear.
    Commentary, Health
    Aly Laube

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

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Policy & Advocacy

  • February 21, 2025

    Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID 

  • A photo of the U.S. Department of Labor Frances Perkins building, in Washington D.C.
    February 11, 2025

    Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability

  • 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

  • This graphic includes a collage of Sen. Todd Young, Trump nominee RFK Jr., and a protestor wearing an N95 and holding a sign reading "LONG COVID DENIAL (does not equal) CURE"
    January 31, 2025

    RECOVER hasn’t been impacted by Trump freezes so far, sources say. But the program’s future is still uncertain.

  • A building complex photographed at sunset
    January 24, 2025

    Some U.S. COVID-19 data are down amid “pause” to federal health communications

  • January 23, 2025

    Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters

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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

  • 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

  • Line chart titled: "COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) Percent Positivity, by Week, in The United States, Reported to CDC." The X axis represents time, spanning February 2022 to April 2025, and the Y axis represents weekly % test positivity for PCR and similar COVID-19 tests. Several past surges are visible, shown with an orange line: the tail end of winter 2021-22, summer 2022, winter 2022-23, summer 2023, winter 2023-24, summer 2024, winter 2024-25. As of April 2025, test positivity has been slowly declining for several weeks but is not as low as it's been in past lulls between surges.
    May 6, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, May 6

  • Map of the U.S., color-coded by state. The chart is titled, "COVID-19," and text at the top reads: "As of April 22, 2025, we estimate that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 4 states, declining or likely declining in 20 states, and not changing in 21 states." Four states are shaded in purple for "growing or likely growing": West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Hawaii. Other states are in green for "declining or likely declining," gray for "not changing," or white for "not estimated."
    April 29, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 29

  • This graphic displays the estimated disease burden of COVID-19 during the 2024-'25 winter season. It includes estimated illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths, each represented as a range of potential burden and identified with icons. COVID-19 estimates: 8.6 million to 14.6 million illnesses, 2.1 million to 3.5 million medical visits, 240,000 to 400,000 hospitalizations, 28,000 to 47,000 deaths.
    April 22, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 22

  • 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

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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

  • an old fashioned vintage Valentine of two young men with blue shirts and shorts and the heads of John Oliver and Jon Stewart on each carrying a string of forget-me-not flowers with red hearts. They have striped knee socks and appear to be frolicking. Above them is “Forget M.E. Not” and below “#John Vs Jon Vs ME #Greatest Medical Scandal Valentine’s Edition.” Outside the Valentine, there is a collage of letters, hearts, and flowers.
    March 31, 2025

    The history of ME deserves a late-night spotlight. That’s why we started the #JohnVsJonVsME campaign.

  • A graphic showing a computer keyboard with the "Delete" key highlighted in red, overlaid with an image of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
    March 25, 2025

    Long COVID data are being erased, again

  • Am image of the essay's author, Christina, standing in front of a window and holding a cell phone. Around the image, there's a colorful yellow and pink border, emojis, and text bubbles.
    March 21, 2025

    A serendipitous friendship taught me my greatest lesson in living with Long COVID: How to just be

  • A collage featuring a picture of Heather, looking dapper in a bow-tie, sunglasses, and a purple KN95 mask; a person dressed up as Batman; a blue cane; bananas; and a MAGA hat lurking in the background.
    March 18, 2025

    The sick soft butch who did: How confronting a racist in my neighborhood helped me claim my Long COVID identity

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