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How do you spot Long COVID misinformation?
In this episode, Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets talk to Long COVID physician, patient and advocate Zeest Khan about her Long COVID journey, how she looks at new research and off-label treatments as a physician, and how to spot misinformation and pseudoscience online.
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Why is airborne disease transmission still controversial to doctors?
Mal was tired of mainstream media misrepresenting COVID-19 and Long COVID, so she picked up a mic and a camera and told the story herself. Thus, Lola Germs was born.
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What can professional athletes teach us about Long COVID and rest?
Oonagh Cousins was preselected for the Tokyo Olympics as a professional rower on the British team — until Long COVID derailed everything. In this episode of Still Here, co-hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets talk to Cousins about developing severe Long COVID at the start of the pandemic, her years-long attempt to return to elite…
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How are disabled artists redefining Pride?
To wrap up LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2026, The Sick Times hosted Virtual Pride, a COVID-conscious drag show featuring queer and disabled performers in the Long COVID community from across the country, hosted by Sick Times contributor and poet Khalil Dennis.
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Will the new COVID-19 antiviral be accessible?
In June, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Xocova (ensitrelvir) as the very first post-exposure prophylaxis for Sars-CoV-2, and if taken within 72 hours, it could stop a SARS-CoV-2 infection in its tracks. The drug is also being studied as a potential Long COVID treatment and even maybe as a preventative. But how…
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How is Minnesota addressing Long COVID?
As many governments shutter and defund their Long COVID programs, Minnesota is ramping up.
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How can we eat when we’re too sick to cook?
In this episode, Miles Griffis talks to writer and artist Aisha Mirza, founder of misery collective and author of misery meals: a crip community anti-cookbook for when eating and cooking is hard. Miles and Aisha discuss the book, how Aisha went from an anti-foodie to a cookbook author, and what it looks like to be…
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Why are RECOVER’s first round of Long COVID clinical trials failing?
The U.S.’s flagship Long COVID research program has received over a billion dollars in funding and had years of input from people with the disease. But its first round of clinical trials are failing, at least in the results out so far.
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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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