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  • The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here’s what they prevent.

    The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here’s what they prevent.

    KFF Health News

    The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death. Read more…

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  • National COVID-19 trends, January 20
    COVID-19
    Betsy Ladyzhets

    National COVID-19 trends, January 20

  • Research updates, January 20
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    Miles W. Griffis

    Research updates, January 20

  • Drawing the elephant: Nine artists illustrating Long COVID and the ongoing pandemic
    Arts & Culture
    Grae Salisbury

    Drawing the elephant: Nine artists illustrating Long COVID and the ongoing pandemic

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Policy & Advocacy

  • November 15, 2025

    Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51

  • Members of a Berlin Buyers Club demonstration outside the Berlin House of Representatives on March 31, 2025. At the front of the photo, two people hold signs reading, "Ich sollte nicht für medizinische grundversorgung demonstrieren müssen," or, "I shouldn't have to demonstrate for basic medical care." Both are wearing winter coats and KN95 masks. Another demonstrator behind them also wears a mask and holds a sign about Long COVID.
    November 11, 2025

    Long COVID advocacy is more than lobbying Congress: Here are some ways to get involved

  • An arial photo of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and nearby waters near Promontory Point. A road bisects the photo and cuts through the saline valley.
    November 7, 2025

    As the American West faces increasing air pollution, protecting the right to mask is vital

  • Students, competition judges, and organizer Armani Guerra pose behind a large yellow M in an event space at the University of Michigan. The four students hold up a check representing their top prize from the competition.
    November 4, 2025

    Business school competition centers Long COVID and IACCs

  • October 21, 2025

    It’s been a month. And we still don’t know much about Kennedy’s Long COVID consortium.

  • October 14, 2025

    Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking

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Science

  • December 16, 2025

    Despite Long COVID’s ongoing impact, research in Colombia is limited

  • A microscope image shows a close up of red blood cells and lymphocytes, or, white blood cells. The red blood cells are pink and round and dominate the slide, while the white blood cells, only five of them, appear bright purple and round.
    December 9, 2025

    Research updates, December 9

  • December 2, 2025

    Research updates, December 2

  • Five scientists are seated behind a long table with microphones. One, on the left, is speaking to answer a question from the audience, and the other four are listening to her. One of the speakers is wearing a mask. A banner displayed on the table reads: "3rd Long COVID International Conference, 2025, Hybrid meeting, 19-20 November, Boston, United States."
    November 25, 2025

    International Long COVID conference spotlights biomarker and mechanism research

  • A close up artwork of the American $100 bill featuring Benjamin Franklin. The former president, a white man in his 50s or 60s appears green with lines across his face and stares at the viewer.
    November 25, 2025

    Research updates, November 25

  • Artistic depiction of ME symptoms by a woman who has the disease, showing a woman slumped over with exhaustion in a river of blue and orange
    November 21, 2025

    Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise

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Covid-19

  • Line chart titled, "Vaccination rates in the U.S., fall 2025." The chart has four lines representing estimated vaccination rates: flu vaccines in adults and children (purple solid line and purple dashed line, respectively), and COVID-19 vaccines in adults and children (teal solid line and teal dashed line). The purple lines representing flu vaccines are much higher, going up toward 40%, than the teal lines representing COVID-19 vaccines. In the latest estimate, for November 22, only 15% of adults and 6% of children have received COVID-19 vaccines. Text below the title notes: "CDC estimates based on survey data from the National Immunization Survey-Fall Respiratory Virus Module, as of December 1, 2025."
    December 2, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, December 2

  • Chart from the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System showing national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels for SARS-CoV-2 over the last six months. The Y axis represents the CDC's activity level score, going from "very low" to "very high." The national trend is represented in black, the Midwest in yellow, South in purple, Northeast in light blue, and West in teal. All four U.S. regions and the national average saw a summer wave from July through September 2025, followed by a lower period in October. Levels have started to increase in the most recent 2-3 weeks of data, especially for the Midwest and Northeast. A note below the chart reads: "Data from the most recent two weeks may be incomplete due to delays in data reporting. These data sets are subject to change and are indicated by the gray shading."
    November 25, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 25

  • Two maps of the U.S., with states color-coded according to whether infections are growing, declining, or not changing. The map on the left shows COVID-19 trends and the one on the right shows flu trends. In both maps, dark purple represents "growing" cases, lighter purple represents "likely growing," gray represents "not changing," light teal represents "likely declining," dark teal represents "declining," and white represents "not estimated." The COVID-19 map includes 20 states colored in shades of purple, 9 in shades of teal, and the remainder in gray or white. On the flu map, 39 states are colored in purple for "growing or likely growing." Text above the maps notes that these are estimates as of November 11. Text below the maps shares national trends: "The weekly percentage of ED visits diagnosed with COVID-19 is very low. The COVID-19 epidemic trend is not changing. Probability COVID-19 epidemic is growing: 56.23% (not changing)" and for flu, "The weekly percentage of ED visits diagnosed with Influenza is low. The Influenza epidemic trend is growing. Probability Influenza epidemic is growing: 99.80% (growing)"
    November 18, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 18

  • Two line charts from the Maine CDC showing trends in emergency room visits. Text at the top reads: "Percentage of weekly statewide emergency room visits with symptoms, complaints, or diagnoses suggesting respiratory disease. These are not confirmed cases. Figures come from Maine's syndromic surveillance system. They represent rough estimates of the burden of particular syndromes or conditions and should not be interpreted to be exact." Both charts include timeframes from September 1, 2024 to November 1, 2025 with time on the X axis. The Y axis represents share of ER visits that are attributed to potential conditions. The top chart represents potential COVID-19 visits and the bottom one represents flu-like symptoms. Both diseases had waves in winter 2024-25, then COVID-19 had an increase in late summer 2025, and both saw increases in October.
    November 11, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 11

  • November 4, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, November 4

  • Line chart from Biobot Analytics titled, "Regional SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations." The X axis represents time, spanning June 2024 to October 2025, and the Y axis represents effective concentration of SARS-CoV-2, copies/mL. There are four lines for the four regions of the U.S. All regions had COVID-19 waves in summer 2024, winter 2024-25, and summer 2025, but magnitudes varied by region. As of mid-October 2025, SARS-CoV-2 levels are trending down in all four regions, and are higher in the Northeast (yellow) and West (green) than the South (pink) and Midwest (purple).
    October 28, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, October 28

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Health

  • A demonstrator in a wheelchair at a rally outside the News Corp. headquarters in New York City on May 20, 2025. The demonstrator, who wears a black shirt and skirt, holds a sign that says, "stop the deadly cuts to Medicaid."
    December 2, 2025

    The future of Medicaid is “really scary” for people with Long COVID

  • Five scientists are seated behind a long table with microphones. One, on the left, is speaking to answer a question from the audience, and the other four are listening to her. One of the speakers is wearing a mask. A banner displayed on the table reads: "3rd Long COVID International Conference, 2025, Hybrid meeting, 19-20 November, Boston, United States."
    November 25, 2025

    International Long COVID conference spotlights biomarker and mechanism research

  • Artistic depiction of ME symptoms by a woman who has the disease, showing a woman slumped over with exhaustion in a river of blue and orange
    November 21, 2025

    Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise

  • November 15, 2025

    Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51

  • An arial photo of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and nearby waters near Promontory Point. A road bisects the photo and cuts through the saline valley.
    November 7, 2025

    As the American West faces increasing air pollution, protecting the right to mask is vital

  • Students, competition judges, and organizer Armani Guerra pose behind a large yellow M in an event space at the University of Michigan. The four students hold up a check representing their top prize from the competition.
    November 4, 2025

    Business school competition centers Long COVID and IACCs

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Commentary

  • December 12, 2023

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  • November 28, 2023

    Share your story ideas at The Sick Times’s Virtual Town Hall

  • November 14, 2023

    Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder Miles W. Griffis

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