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  • Work until you disappear: Long COVID ensnared me in an exploitative health system

    Work until you disappear: Long COVID ensnared me in an exploitative health system

    Daphne Sara Safaei

    The disease emphasizes the racism and ableism of the public health sector in Germany. People with disabilities and chronic illnesses must be prioritized over profits. Read more…

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    February 6, 2025

    My husband and I have both had ME for decades, then our son got Long COVID

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    February 4, 2025

    “Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review

  • 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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