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  • A “muddy intervention”: The complex reality of taVNS therapy for Long COVID

    A “muddy intervention”: The complex reality of taVNS therapy for Long COVID

    Corina Maller

    People are experimenting with transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), with mixed results, ahead of medical guidelines Read more…

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  • Research updates, April 21
    Science
    Miles W. Griffis

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

    National COVID-19 trends, April 21

  • I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.
    Commentary, International
    Mustafa Talat

    I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.

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Policy & Advocacy

  • November 21, 2023

    The HHS invites nominees for a new committee on Long Covid, but will it listen to them?

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Science

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    March 18, 2025

    Research updates, March 18

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    March 11, 2025

    Research updates, March 11

  • Microscope image of a human lung cell, dyed in pink and purple
    March 4, 2025

    Research updates, March 4

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    February 25, 2025

    False hope: In Sub-Saharan Africa, wars damage Long COVID research and surveillance

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    February 25, 2025

    Research updates, February 25

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    February 18, 2025

    Research updates, February 18

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Covid-19

  • October 29, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 3

  • October 29, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 29

  • October 22, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 22

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    October 15, 2024

    Research updates, October 15

  • Line chart showing SARS-CoV-2 levels over time for the U.S. nationally (black line) and four major regions (Northeast in bright green, South in yellow-green, Midwest in red, West in blue). Following increases over the summer, viral levels are decreasing in all four regions.
    October 15, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 15

  • October 14, 2024

    Filmmaker Jesse Ridgway shares experience with Long COVID with millions of followers

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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

  • 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

  • At the front, a row of protestors in wheelchairs display signs in support of Palestinian liberation. Essay author Jenna Bitar is second from left. Comrades are supporting the wheelchair users, and other members of the march are visible behind them, as well as businesses and homes of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
    January 17, 2025

    Instead of supporting people with Long COVID, our government funds a genocide

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    January 14, 2025

    Immune system damage from COVID-19 is different from HIV/AIDS — but the advocacy has parallels

  • Graphic adapted from the cover of The Covid Safety Handbook. Text in light blue shows the title and author, Violet Blue, next to an image of a face wearing a high-quality mask.
    January 7, 2025

    “Stand Together,” an excerpt from The Covid Safety Handbook

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