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You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
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We need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet.
We are now recruiting for the Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T), which participants can complete entirely from bed.
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Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug.
We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis. Without warning, the trial was canceled in June 2024.
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Long COVID inspired me to start an IACC case competition at my business school. Here’s how you can get involved.
On October 31, at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, top graduate students will compete to develop innovative business solutions for the IACC community. This event, which will be open to the public, will include testimonials from people with Long COVID and an expert panel, as well as the competition…
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Patricia Lockwood explores the depths of Long COVID in the new novel “Will There Ever Be Another You”
In her new novel Will There Ever Be Another You, which chronicles her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, literary icon Patricia Lockwood writes, “‘Please don’t write about it,’ people were already begging each other, so she kept the notebook secret.”
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Letter to the editors: Concerns about California’s right-to-mask bill
In May, The Sick Times published an op-ed about a novel bill in Illinois that would enshrine the right to wear medical masks into that state’s law. The op-ed’s author, a writer and advocate who was part of the coalition behind the bill, wrote that advocates in several other states had worked on similar legislation.…
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Stop looking for a silver bullet. Start mixing the Long COVID cocktail.
Here’s what keeps me up at night: If some people are finding relief, why aren’t we scaling what might work? And why aren’t we trying multiple interventions at the same time?
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How do you get people to care about COVID-19? Here’s what I’ve learned as an organizer.
As someone with Long COVID, it’s demoralizing to see people in my circles party and engage in COVID-risky behaviors while I sit at home. It would be easy to turn my back on those people and give up on community organizations that minimize COVID-19. But that’s not me, and that’s not what being in community…
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Long COVID taught me to slow down and stop trying to meet able-bodied benchmarks
My life before Long COVID was very busy. I was in college, partying a lot and working as an artist and activist. I didn’t make time to rest, and it caused me to burn out. I tried to do everything at once and became overwhelmed.
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Posthumous album of singer Kara Jane released on Severe ME Awareness Day
This month, on August 8, the posthumous album of a young singer was released to mark Severe ME Awareness Day. Kara Jane, from Derbyshire in the U.K., had myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for most of her life and died in January 2023 at just 32 years old. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara…
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