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  • We made a COVID-19 memorial in the ashes of a Joshua tree forest

    We made a COVID-19 memorial in the ashes of a Joshua tree forest

    Miles W. Griffis

    Despite nearly 1.3 million deaths and counting, there is still not a national memorial for the pandemic. Our informal memorial in the middle of the Mojave Desert is one small way to remember those we’ve lost so far. Read more…

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

    Department of Defense funds $8 million grant for Long COVID trials

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    National COVID-19 trends, September 1

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Science

  • 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 how masks measure up, based on a recent study in PLOS One. Medical and cotton masks have a filtration efficiency of around 50%; KF94/KN95s with earloops, level 3 medical masks, and another type of cotton masks are around 70%; and level 1 medical masks and N95 respirators (with overhead straps) are over 90%.
    April 29, 2025

    Research updates, April 29

  • Graphic shows two human figures facing each other, with X-ray-style imaging showing their bones. The figures are lit up in shades of yellow, red, pink, purple, and blue, and the backdrop behind them is blue graph paper.
    April 22, 2025

    This surgery fuses people’s skulls to their spines to treat a condition overlapping with myalgic encephalomyelitis

  • person doing blood test
    April 22, 2025

    Research updates, April 22

  • hands holding rtg picture
    April 15, 2025

    Research updates, April 15

  • A patient room inside a medical facility, mostly taken up by a cushioned board with straps at the sides, a pillow at one end, and a platform at the other. Off to one side is a shelf with monitors and other medical instruments.
    April 8, 2025

    “It’s like torture”: The tilt table test could be risky for many people with Long COVID

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Covid-19

  • Line chart showing COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 people in the U.S. The chart goes from fall 2022 through fall 2024. The 2022-23 season, in bright blue, had a higher peak than the 2023-24 season, in red. The current hospitalization rate, in light blue, is much lower than the rate reported at this time in 2023. The most recent two values on the chart are marked with a dashed line to indicate provisional data.
    November 19, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, November 19

  • Line chart showing SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater from fall 2023 through fall 2024, titled, "SARS-CoV-2, All Wastewater Sites." The Y axis represents quantity of nucleic acids, PMMoV Normalized (x 1 million) while the X axis represents time. Levels rose significantly in winter 2023 and then again in summer 2024, and are now in a moderate plateau as of early November 2024.
    November 12, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, November 12

  • November 8, 2024

    Live blog: Following the Fall 2024 PolyBio Symposium on Long COVID research

  • November 5, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, November 5

  • October 29, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 3

  • October 29, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 29

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Health

  • April 9, 2024

    Hidden disability: The quiet struggle with Long Covid in Kenya

  • March 26, 2024

    Want to enroll in a Long Covid clinical trial? This new project helps track them.

  • February 13, 2024

    Covid-19 reinfections are further disabling people with Long Covid

  • January 30, 2024

    A win for healthcare workers and patients: The CDC returns HICPAC’s draft recommendations on infection control

  • January 30, 2024

    This artist is memorializing the Covid-19 pandemic through textiles, and you can help

  • January 16, 2024

    What recovery? Long Covid’s deep impact on Latinos

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Commentary

  • Collage graphic showing an outline of an N95 mask on a passport page, a small model of an airplane, and a bunch of COVID-19 rapid tests. There is an airport scene in the background with a plane taking off outside the window.
    June 10, 2025

    Traveling with Long COVID is a challenge. Here’s how I made my journey safer.

  • Graphic showing a red cross with a large crack running through its center, against a backdrop with small white coronavirus particles on an orange background
    June 2, 2025

    Emergency departments aren’t trained for Long COVID — and patients are paying the price

  • Collage graphic showing cut-outs of people wearing KN95 masks
    May 27, 2025

    Illinois could become the first state in the country to ban mask bans. Here’s how we created the bill to do it.

  • 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

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