Policy & Advocacy
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Long COVID advocacy is more than lobbying Congress: Here are some ways to get involved
People with infection associated chronic conditions (IACCs) use a broad range of strategies to fight for awareness and better care.
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As the American West faces increasing air pollution, protecting the right to mask is vital
Utah’s proposed ban became an important case study demonstrating the overlapping concerns between airborne pathogens and environmental air pollution. It highlighted the necessity of building coalitions between environmental, health and disability, and civil liberties groups in resisting mask bans as climate change is on track to worsen a variety of environmental public health threats, not…
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Business school competition centers Long COVID and IACCs
At this case competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the winning team sought to better connect people with IACCs and healthcare providers who serve them.
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It’s been a month. And we still don’t know much about Kennedy’s Long COVID consortium.
Preliminary meetings are occurring amid the ongoing government shutdown, while some advocates call for Health Secretary Kennedy’s removal
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Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking
While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workplace even though these policies may violate laws that protect masks as accessibility devices. The Sick Times…
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Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event
During today’s United Nations (UN) event “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action,” advocate Violet Affleck spoke about how clean air and masking are vital tools to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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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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Kennedy’s HHS commits to Long COVID, but without clear funding
Following two roundtable discussions with leading researchers and government officials — but limited patient engagement — HHS announced a public awareness campaign and medical resource platform
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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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Left without care: Many Long COVID clinics are closing down in the U.K.
Fewer than half of U.K. Long COVID clinics will stay open this year, according to research from the charity Long COVID Support. At their peak, there were 120 clinics across the U.K., but only 46 have confirmed they will remain open.
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