Commentary
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Covid-19 reinfections are further disabling people with Long Covid
Attempting to recover or improve your quality of life with Long Covid or other IACCs today is a Sisyphean effort. Our governments, public health organizations, and leaders have condemned us to an underworld (a wayside?) where we push the boulder of our recovery up a mountain, only to be reinfected and watch it tumble back…
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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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Virtual town hall recording now available
Thanks to everyone who came to our virtual town hall last week! We received incredible feedback, comments, and story ideas from the community. A recording of the first few minutes of the meeting, featuring an overview and update from our co-editors, is now available.
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Support Long Covid journalism for #GivingTuesday
Today, on Giving Tuesday, an internationally recognized day for giving to charity, please consider donating to our nonprofit newsroom at The Sick Times. We aim to raise $75,000 as we build a full news website in 2024.
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Share your story ideas at The Sick Times’s Virtual Town Hall
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.
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Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder Miles W. Griffis
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.
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Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder, Betsy Ladyzhets
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…
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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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