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  • Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions

    Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions

    Miles W. Griffis

    Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating.  Read more…

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Policy & Advocacy

  • This edited graphic shows the faces of several Trump picks for top federal government agencies, such as RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya, arranged in a circle around a diagram of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Trump's face is in the center. The background of the image is a mashup of newspaper columns.
    November 26, 2024

    “Don’t give up hope”: Long COVID advocates and researchers say crucial work will continue under Trump

  • Portrait of Neil Riley
    November 22, 2024

    Advocacy groups suspend ties with U.K. charity The ME Association over chairman’s op-ed

  • November 5, 2024

    We set out to make our ‘invisible illness’ visible in South Africa with SICK Pride

  • October 29, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 3

  • A TV split-screen view shows Martha, who has medium length hair and glasses and wears a yellow and white shirt. She asks her question in the audience of a tv station set. Harris stands on the floor of the station wearing a black shirt and a brown blazer.
    October 11, 2024

    Kamala Harris responds to voter with Long COVID

  • October 8, 2024

    A brief, oral history of mask blocs: Part 2

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Science

  • Graphic showing the top of Berlin's TV Tower, edited to look like part of an IV tube. The graphic has a light blue background with white molecular structure diagrams in the top left.
    July 22, 2025

    Berlin Cures’ failed Long COVID clinical trial yields lessons on study design

  • A siamese cat with blue eyes wears a cone after a presumed trip to the vet
    July 22, 2025

    Research updates, July 22

  • close up of hands holding glucose meter
    July 15, 2025

    Research updates, July 15

  • Colorized image from an electron micrograph (high-powered microscope), showing cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. The cells are shown as bright green blobs, and the virus particles are small pink pieces latched onto the cells.
    July 9, 2025

    Live blog: Following the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar

  • A 3D rendered image of SARS-C0V-2 viruses in teal, with yellow monoclonal antibodies surrounding them with a black background
    July 8, 2025

    Research updates, July 8

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    July 1, 2025

    Research updates, July 1

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Covid-19

  • Chart from the CDC. Text at the top reads: "This chart shows national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels of SARS-COV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19)." The chart shows the past year of data, April 2024 to April 2025. National trends are shown with a black line, and regional trends are in different colors: yellow for the Midwest, purple for the South, light blue for the Northeast, teal for the West. All four regions had significant COVID-19 waves in summer 2024 and winter 2024-25; the winter wave led to less disease spread at its peak but was longer, and current disease levels are now higher than they were at this time last year.
    April 15, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 15

  • 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 chart's X axis is time, spanning November 2022 to March 2025, and the Y axis is the percent of emergency department (ED) visits diagnosed as COVID-19. The chart shows COVID-19 waves in winter 2022-23, summer 2023, winter 2023-24, summer 2024, and winter 2024-25. Following the latest wave, the % of ED visits diagnosed as COVID-19 has been stuck at a relatively high plateau, with the most recent value (over 0.5%) higher than the lows in between past waves.
    April 8, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 8

  • Map of New York State, with a variety of colored dots representing wastewater testing sites. The dots are colored according to SARS-CoV-2 detection level, with red/orange shades for higher levels and blue shades for lower levels. In the most recent data, 40 sites report higher levels (including many in NYC and Long Island, as well as Western NY), 60 report moderate levels, 15 report low levels, and the remaining 54 do not have recent data available.
    April 1, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, April 1

  • A set of four charts, titled "Regional Wastewater Concentrations." All four are line charts showing data from November 2023 through March 2025, with colored lines representing the four U.S. regions: yellow for Northeast, purple for Midwest, green for West, pink for South. The influenza A, influenza B, and RSV charts show clear waves over winter 2023-24 and 2024-25; the COVID-19 chart also shows a summer 2024 wave.
    March 25, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, March 25

  • Line chart titled, "SARS-CoV-2, All Wastewater Sites." The chart shows the national average of coronavirus readings in wastewater from across the U.S., representing sites in WWSCAN's network. The Y axis represents quantity of nucleic acids (PPMoV Normalized, x1 million) and the Y axis represents time, going from October 2023 to March 2025. It shows a major wave in winter 2023-24, a smaller wave in summer 2024, and then another smaller but longer wave in winter 2024-25, now plateaued at a moderate level.
    March 18, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, March 18

  • Chart titled, "Americans' Return to Pre-Pandemic Normalcy." Text at the top reads: "Thinking about your life before the start of the coronavirus, would you say your life right now is completely back to normal, somewhat back to normal but not completely normal, or not yet back to normal? If not back to normal: Do you think your life will ever get completely back to the “normal” that existed before the coronavirus pandemic?" The green line representing "completely back to normal" is at 47% in the most recent poll results; the dark blue line representing "no, but will get back" is at 13%; and the light blue line representing "no, will never get back to normal" is at 40%.
    March 11, 2025

    National COVID-19 trends, March 11

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Health

  • 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

  • January 6, 2025

    How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

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Commentary

  • A black and white photo of Jacquie and her mom, Jacquie wearing a graduate's cap and gown. The photo is on a pastel pink background.
    December 10, 2024

    My Mom was disabled by ME, but I didn’t understand until I developed Long COVID. I wrote an apology letter to her.

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    Special edition zine: One year of The Sick Times

  • November 22, 2024

    Video essay: Taipei on what it’s like being a drag artist with Long COVID

  • November 15, 2024

    Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID

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