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What is the link between climate change and chronic illness?
What happens when your body and the climate break down at the same time? In this episode, Still Here co-host Miles Griffis talks to Lorraine Boissoneault, science journalist and Sick Times contributor, about her new book, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene. Lorraine shares how she came to see the links between…
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How do we track COVID-19 in 2026?
As one of the last newsrooms still reporting on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we get a lot of questions about how we track the SARS-CoV-2 virus, from whether or not to trust CDC data to how wastewater data monitoring works. To answer those questions and assist in finding and interpreting data on COVID-19 and other…
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“People are dying because of the stigma”: Long COVID’s global underreporting problem
Hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets speak with health journalist Jamie Ducharme about why Long COVID is dramatically underreported globally, and hear from South African advocate Mlindeni Gabela about fighting for diagnosis and breaking stigma in his community.
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“The Way Disabled People Love Each Other”: In conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
What can love look like when you’re disabled — and how do you write about grief when the crisis is still ongoing? In this episode of Still Here, hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets sit down with poet, author, and disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha to discuss their new poetry collection, The Way Disabled…
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What is the federal government currently doing about Long COVID?
In this episode of Still Here, hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk about the latest updates from the US Department of Health and Human Services and their efforts on Long COVID, as well as the criticisms they face from members of the community. Subscribe to Still Here wherever you get your podcasts, and leave…
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Long COVID Awareness Day 2026: Inside the growing organizing efforts to recognize the disease
Long COVID Awareness Day is gaining official recognition around the world, driven by a growing network of people with Long COVID and their allies. In our season two premiere of Still Here, hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk to Nicholas Rodelo of Clean Air Los Angeles about how he and his fellow organizers secured…
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Still Here, September 19: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here, the finale of our season 1 ends the way it started, with a recap of the latest RECOVER-TLC workshop.
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Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers shares advice for interpreting COVID-19 and other infectious disease data
To offer guidance on finding and interpreting infectious disease data during these confusing times, managing editor Betsy Ladyzhets talked to Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of the popular newsletter, Force of Infection.
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Building a “community wiki” of Long COVID care: Salvatore Mattera on the Help for Long COVID review site
In spring 2025, Salvatore and Stephanie Mattera launched the new site Help for Long COVID, inspired by Salvatore’s challenges finding healthcare after he developed the disease. Managing editor Betsy Ladyzhets spoke to Salvatore Mattera about the project.
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Still Here, August 22: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here: Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis recap the Keystone Symposia. Plus, a recap of a new NIH RECOVER preprint about reinfections.
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