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Two new books help children understand how Long COVID impacts their family members
Author and educator Sara Robitaille seeks to raise awareness and educate kids with her two new children’s books, Long COVID Transformed My Mommy and Long COVID Transformed My Sister into a Turtle.
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Comic: Reasons to wear a mask in 2026
Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026.
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These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions
While most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
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Sophia Yau-Weeks’ new single, “Nobody’s Laughing,” grapples with the isolation of Long COVID
On her 26th birthday, for the first time in her life, Sophia Yau-Weeks found herself alone on her birthday. A 2023 SARS-CoV-2 infection left her immunocompromised, and her ensuing COVID-19 safety precautions left her without COVID-conscious friends to celebrate with.
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“Invisible Illness” could have been transgressive. Instead, it minimizes Long COVID.
The book fails to convey the severity of infection-associated chronic conditions, demands for treatment, or importance of infection prevention.
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Snapshots of the unseen: How we focused Long COVID in a recent photo exhibition
Art offers a way to translate lived experience into shared understanding. Some of these efforts are already in progress: in October 2025, my research team launched a photo exhibition called Living with Long COVID at the Museum of Vancouver.
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Drawing the elephant: Nine artists illustrating Long COVID and the ongoing pandemic
Illustrators who bravely explore the ongoing pandemic in their work break down stereotypes, contextualize differing experiences, build community, and raise awareness. These artists create spaces where audiences can reflect and engage with stories that can broaden our understanding of ourselves and the world.
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Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder
Last fall, Brooklyn-based musician Dave Ruder coined a new format when he released a “Long COVID album,” shaped by his experience with the disease.
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Patricia Lockwood explores the depths of Long COVID in the new novel “Will There Ever Be Another You”
In her new novel Will There Ever Be Another You, which chronicles her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, literary icon Patricia Lockwood writes, “‘Please don’t write about it,’ people were already begging each other, so she kept the notebook secret.”
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Posthumous album of singer Kara Jane released on Severe ME Awareness Day
This month, on August 8, the posthumous album of a young singer was released to mark Severe ME Awareness Day. Kara Jane, from Derbyshire in the U.K., had myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for most of her life and died in January 2023 at just 32 years old. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara…
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