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  • NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

    NIH officials discuss agency’s Long COVID clinical trials, respond to critiques

    Betsy Ladyzhets

    “We understand the frustration and respect it completely,” said NIAID program officer and TLC leader Joseph Breen, when asked about the more than a year that’s gone between RECOVER-TLC trials’ announcement and enrolling participants. Read more…

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    Miles W. Griffis

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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  • Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials
    Policy & Advocacy, Science
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    Live blog: RECOVER-TLC third annual workshop shares updates on Long COVID clinical trials

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Policy & Advocacy

  • October 8, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 2

  • Portrait of Tinu Abayomi-Paul
    October 4, 2024

    Tinu Abayomi-Paul, writer, disability advocate, and person with Long COVID, dies at 52

  • September 24, 2024

    Millions of Americans have Long COVID. Will Kamala Harris acknowledge them?

  • Collage showing a crate of rapid at-home COVID-19 tests, a map of mask bloc locations, a box of 3M N95 respirators, and a flyer from a mask bloc in Nassau County and Queens, New York introducing how mask blocs distribute free high-quality masks in their communities
    September 10, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 1

  • September 3, 2024

    “Perfect storm” of criminalization: Analyzing mask bans

  • August 13, 2024

    Q&A: NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli on next steps for RECOVER, future Long Covid research plans, and more

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Science

  • November 14, 2025

    Live blog: PolyBio’s Fall 2025 Symposium shares Long COVID and related disease research updates

  • A microscopic image shows a microclot, or tiny blood clot, that apparently originated from the combination of two microclots resulting from NETs association. The photo labels different parts of the microclot, which appears red, blue, green, and yellow.
    November 11, 2025

    Research updates, November 11

  • View of the Berlin Victory Column from a Park, Berlin, Germany. The tower glows in late day light between dark fall foliage.
    November 4, 2025

    Research updates, November 4

  • A graphic featuring a photo of the Long COVID Treatment Trial testing kit: a package, colored teal on the inside, that includes a Garmin device, smart scale, and other supplies for the trial, along with instructions. The kit is shown three times, with a background that is light orange with white spots
    October 30, 2025

    We need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet.

  • October 28, 2025

    Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used?

  • Colorized electron micrograph scan of a T-cell, a type of white blood cell. The cell appears as a yellow mass with many intersecting pieces
    October 28, 2025

    Research updates, October 28

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Covid-19

  • Graphic titled, "State Summary of California for SARS-CoV-2 (Last Update: 06/18/2025." The graphic includes two boxes with summary text on the left side and a line chart on the right side. The boxes read: "State Aggregated Summary: Level: Medium; Trend (compared to 21 days ago): Plateau 19%; Data Source: All Laboratories. 21 day Trend Summary: Number of sites reporting data in past 21 days: 63; Increasing at 21/63 sites (33%); Decreasing at 34/53 sites (54%); Plateauing at 8/63 sites (13%); Concentrations too low to define trends at 0/63 sites (0%)." The line chart on the right is titled, "State Aggregated Plot for SARS-CoV-2." It shows data from July 2024 through June 2025, and displays a significant summer surge in 2024, a smaller winter surge in 2024-25, and a slow increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels in the last several weeks. Levels for the last 21 days of data have passed CDPH's threshold for "low" and are now "medium."
    June 24, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 24

  • A portrait of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., colored in red, with a graphical representation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind him.
    June 19, 2025

    The federal government is restricting COVID-19 vaccine access. Here’s what that means for the ongoing pandemic and people with Long COVID.

  • A screenshot of two CDC charts, one on the left is a bar chart and on the right is a table. The bar chart is titled: "Weighted and Nowcast Estimates in the United States for 2-Week Periods in 2/16/2025 to 6/7/2025." Below, it shows eight bars, each representing a two-week period. Every bar has color-coded sections corresponding to different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The right-most two bars are shaded in gray to indicate that they are modeled estimates for recent weeks, with data subject to change. The table on the right is titled, "Nowcast Estimates in United States for 5/25/2025 to 6/7/2025." It shows variant estimates for the most recent two-week period, with colors corresponding to the bars on the left. Variant LP.8.1, in bright orange, has dominated the variant landscape for most recent weeks, but a new variant called NB.1.8.1 is now quickly taking over. It's estimated to cause 37% of new cases in the most recent two-week period, though it has a large confidence interval, spanning 13% to 68%.
    June 17, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 17

  • Line chart from the CDC, titled: "Percentage of Emergency Department (ED) Visits Diagnosed as COVID-19, by Week, in The United States, Reported to CDC." The share of weekly ED visits diagnosed as COVID are represented with an orange line. The Y axis represents the % of weekly visits, and the X axis represents time, spanning December 2022 through May 2025. The chart shows several COVID-19 waves, and most recently shows the winter 2024-25 wave followed by a slow decline in COVID-caused ED visits. In the most recent week of data, this value went back up slightly.
    June 10, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 10

  • Line chart from Biobot Analytics titled, "Regional SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations." The chart includes four lines, each representing SARS-CoV-2 trends for one region of the U.S.: pink for the South, purple for the Midwest, green for the West, gold for the Northeast. The X axis represents time, spanning February 2024 to May 2025, and the Y axis represents effective concentration of SARS-CoV-2, copies/mL. All regions have experienced COVID-19 waves in winter 2023-24, summer 2024, and winter 2024-25. In recent weeks, levels have declined in all regions except for the West, where they have been slowly increasing.
    June 3, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, June 3

  • A group of advocates standing in front of Los Angeles City Hall, an imposing white building with palm trees out front. Everyone in the group is wearing high-quality masks, and advocates toward the front hold a banner with the words, "Lie Down 4 Long Covid."
    June 2, 2025

    Los Angeles’ $13M COVID-19 relief funds could go to building upgrades, not Long COVID care

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Health

  • A photo of the U.S. Department of Labor Frances Perkins building, in Washington D.C.
    February 11, 2025

    Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability

  • A screenshot of a CDC error page reading, "The page you're looking for was not found," with a red X drawn over it and a red background.
    January 31, 2025

    Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order

  • An image of two people talking while wearing KN95 masks, against a background with a light green and white pattern
    January 30, 2025

    The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

  • A bright red and yellow graphic. At the center is a circular cut-out of text from the Affordable Care Act, with X-s for eyes and a mouth on top of it in drawn in black lines, and red spikes around the edges of the circle. There are bolded exclamation points on either sides of the cut-out text.
    January 27, 2025

    As someone with Long COVID, I’m terrified of what could happen to the Affordable Care Act

  • January 23, 2025

    Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters

  • Organizer Abby Mahler poses next to a blue wagon full of high-quality masks. N95 masks in different shapes and colors are visible, such as 3M Auras. Mahler is wearing a N95 and giving a peace sign.
    January 10, 2025

    COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke

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Commentary

  • Graphic with a teal background (the color of Long COVID awareness). At the center is a hand holding a megaphone, with a yellow and white "kapow" sound effect design coming out of the bell.
    May 20, 2025

    I want a Long COVID language revolution — not language imposed onto my sick, disabled body

  • Portrait of Kim Moy, standing on a boardwalk in front of a landscape of trees and water.
    May 15, 2025

    Avoiding caregiver burnout: Wisdom for the ME and Long COVID community

  • A page in Felicity's diary, covered in a drawing of a light bulb done with black pen and highlighter. Text below the light bulb reads: "A light has been turned on." The adjacent page has images of a flyer for a frog study and flowers.
    May 2, 2025

    How volunteering to become a lab rat paid off

  • Graphic showing an image of an emergency room sign (shaded in red), a person placing their hand on their chest (shaded in green), and a black and white backdrop of blood cells and SARS-CoV-2 molecules.
    April 25, 2025

    COVID-19 triggered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism that led to long-term lung damage. It took two ER trips before doctors believed me.

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