
Join The Sick Times co-founders Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets on Wednesday, December 6, at 7 pm EST/4 pm PST for a virtual town hall. We’ll give you an update on The Sick Times, describing the project’s current status and future plans. We’ll also invite attendees to share comments, questions, and story ideas.

It’s not mysterious. A highly contagious airborne virus has spread around the world for the past four years and continues to infect people as I write. SARS-Cov-2 has killed an excess of 23 million people worldwide and plagued over 65 million people with Long Covid and other associated conditions.

The story sounds familiar, but Long Covid is different: this time, the number of sick people is too big to ignore. People with Long Covid are making their voices heard everywhere from their doctors’ offices to the steps of the White House. Those of us who’ve been listening hear the calls to action — to…

If you’re part of the Long Covid community, we want to hear from you. We want to know what you’ve found helpful — and unhelpful — in past media coverage of Long Covid. And we want to know your priorities and story ideas as we start to plan our articles for the coming months, building…
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