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“Unspooling”, an excerpt from Alice Wong’s Disability Intimacy
Disabled love is a different kind of love. It’s neither born from blood ties nor proximity. It doesn’t hold to the same rules as romantic, platonic, or familial love. It comes from a shared desire for a better world. It sustains us in moments when we don’t love ourselves, and it offers a tether to…
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Press release: The Sick Times announces $250,000 in funding to support expanded Long Covid coverage
The Sick Times, the nonprofit newsroom focused on Long Covid and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, is excited to announce it has received an award of $250,000 from the biotech giving…
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Errors, omissions, potential bias: Why some ME experts are calling for a retraction of the NIH intramural study
After NIH’s intramural ME study was published last month in the journal Nature Communications, some patient-advocates and experts in the ME community say their worst fears about this $8 million, eight-year research project were realized. In interviews with The Sick Times, advocates and experts shared concerns about which patients were included in the research, the…
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Photo essay: Long Covid advocates gather in DC for demonstration
On Friday, March 15, 2024 people with Long Covid and their allies gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. for the Long Covid D.C. (LCDC) march to commemorate Long Covid Awareness Day.
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Fundraising update: We’ve raised nearly $10,000!
In late November, The Sick Times announced our initial fundraiser, aiming to raise $75,000 as we build a full news website this year. Thanks to generous donations from you, our readers, we are now about 13% of the way to that goal — and have raised nearly $10,000 to support our work! You’re helping us…
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Covid-19 in the hierarchy of the Gaza health crises
Gaza faces severe healthcare collapse after more than 20,000 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 70% of them women and children. As the Covid-19 pandemic still surges around the world, it is almost impossible to track in Gaza due to a lack of testing resources, attacks on healthcare facilities, and hundreds…
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