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Press release: The Sick Times announces one year of covering the Long COVID crisis
“Our reporting on Long COVID remains as vital today as it did when we launched,” executive editor Miles W. Griffis said. “Many of our colleagues in the media continue to minimize the disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — but not The Sick Times. We report on the most common adverse outcome of COVID-19 affecting…
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Live blog: Following the Fall 2024 PolyBio Symposium on Long COVID research
On Friday, a number of prominent Long COVID scientists are set to present updates on their work at the PolyBio Research Foundation’s fall research symposium. PolyBio is a leading organization in supporting formative Long COVID science; it has backed research into Long COVID’s biological causes as well as clinical trials aiming to address those underlying…
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Support Long COVID journalism in our end-of-year fundraiser
We’re dedicated to covering Long COVID for the people most impacted by this disease. Unlike mainstream media outlets, we’re not minimizing the ongoing pandemic. Instead, we’re exposing how this mass disabling event is impacting millions of people in the U.S. and around the world. That wouldn’t be possible without the support of community members like…
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Kamala Harris responds to voter with Long COVID
Last night during a town hall with the Spanish-language news network Univision, Vice President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris received a question from a person with Long COVID who applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) three years ago and still hasn’t received a decision on her case. Martha, who is 62, had a heart…
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Live blog: Following the RECOVER-Treating Long COVID kickoff event
This week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) starts a new phase of RECOVER, its flagship, $1.6-billion Long COVID research program. RECOVER has convened leading scientists in a three-day meeting to advance new clinical trials. Following the program’s launch in 2021, RECOVER has drawn criticism for moving slowly and failing to support promising clinical…
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Introducing Long COVID Essentials, a new resource series
We are excited to announce Long COVID Essentials, a new collaboration between The Sick Times and Long COVID Justice. Over the next several months, we’ll be publishing over 30 resource sheets that provide foundational information about navigating Long COVID. Each sheet can be printed and/or shared as digital PDFs.
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Iconic musician SĂ©rgio Mendes dies while battling Long COVID
Los Angeles: World-renowned musician SĂ©rgio Mendes, 83, died while fighting the effects of Long COVID, according to a recent statement by his family. “For the last several months,” the family wrote, “his health has been challenged by the effects of long term COVID.” Mendes died on September 5, surrounded by his partner, Gracinha Leporace Mendes,…
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Research updates, July 30
*Editor’s note: The PolyBio Research Foundation, which supported this study, like The Sick Times, has received support from the Balvi and Kanro funds. Our newsroom operates independently of financial supporters.
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Long Covid advocates call out Biden, ask for $1.2 billion of 2025 NIH budget
Last week, a delegation organized by the grassroots advocacy group the Long Covid Campaign traveled to Washington D.C., asking Senate leaders to accelerate over a billion dollars in funding for Long Covid research with the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The advocates made themselves known in the…
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How to make spaces more accessible during the continuing pandemic
The relentlessness of the pandemic, now in its fifth year, is drawn out by the persistence of its denial. The federal emergency ended, Covid-19 precautions have been lifted for years, and though many people are “back to normal,” over 20,000 people in the United States died of Covid-19 since the beginning of 2024. Millions who…
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