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

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

    Mustafa Talat

    I was three hours into my internal medicine ward call when the brain fog descended like a curtain dropping mid-performance. Read more…

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  • Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe
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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

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

    Research updates, March 4

  • A group of refugees from Mozambique, wearing colorful clothing and face masks.
    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

  • a woman holding while looking at a blood tube
    February 18, 2025

    Research updates, February 18

  • person holding three syringes with medicine
    February 11, 2025

    Research updates, February 11

  • An illustration of chickens in a factory farm, with overlaid depictions of the influenza virus
    February 7, 2025

    We won’t avoid the next pandemic. But we can still prepare.

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Covid-19

  • October 29, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 29

  • October 22, 2024

    National COVID-19 trends, October 22

  • closeup of little atoms under a microscope
    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

  • October 8, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 2

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Health

  • 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

  • January 9, 2024

    New CDC data identify more than 5,000 Long Covid deaths, but tally is likely a significant undercount

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Commentary

  • Graphic highlighting the cover of the PLRC-RTHM Long COVID Treatment Guide, featuring both organizations' logos and text sharing the guide's title. Behind the cover, there is a zoomed-in image of a blister pack holding pills.
    March 12, 2026

    A new aid in the doctor’s office: Introducing the Long COVID Treatment Guide

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    March 7, 2026

    My child and I both have Long COVID. Even in COVID-aware spaces, we are excluded because of their pre-existing disability.

  • A flier for the event reads, "The Sick Times: Free Webinar, The Long COVID Op-Ed." It features photos, names, and affiliations for the event's three guest speakers: Torie Bosch, First Opinion editor at STAT; Madeline Miller, best-selling author; Funmi Okunola, MD, co-founder of Long COVID the Answers. There is a stack of newspapers in the background of the flyer, on top of a teal background.
    February 24, 2026

    How to write an op-ed about Long COVID

  • A graphic displays two images together. One is a scientific rendering of an up close shot of red, yellow, and blue virus. Overlaid on top of it is the 5th century BCE marble relief art "Ascelpius or Hippocrates treating and ill woman." In the scene, a man touches the shoulder of a woman lying down as four other people stand by and watch.
    February 13, 2026

    “Invisible Illness” could have been transgressive. Instead, it minimizes Long COVID.

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