COVID-19 precautions
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Universities get an F on Long COVID. Here’s how they can support their students and reduce COVID-19 cases.
My infection months before came and went mildly, but it soon became obvious that my sluggishness and pain were not caused by caffeine, thesis stress, or hangovers. It was Long COVID.
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Traveling with Long COVID is a challenge. Here’s how I made my journey safer.
Last fall, I went on a trip to Ireland, traveling thousands of miles from my home in Illinois. I encountered many obstacles on my journey, but in the end was able to balance my energy and disability with some enjoyable ventures. I’m happy to report that I achieved my goal.
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Missives from the dismissed: Still COVIDing without community
Combining my experience building COVID-safe communities online and interviews with over a dozen COVID-cautious people who are “still COVIDing” despite a lack of community, family, and/or peer support, I learned that many are stuck in situations that make living a normal life difficult or impossible because of widespread COVID-19 denial. This essay is a collection…
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Invivyd Chairman Marc Elia: The bureaucracy is killing people with Long COVID
The Biden administration failed to prioritize innovative solutions that could alleviate or prevent the worsening of this crisis. Instead, they relied on short-acting, marginally-effective COVID-19 vaccines while restricting the development and availability of new medicines that could dramatically change health outcomes for millions.
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The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19
Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID-19 precautions have lost many friends as they are not able or willing to return to “pre-pandemic” behaviors.
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COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke
As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution. Community members from local COVID-19 advocacy and mutual aid groups stepped in to fill this gap, providing stockpiled respirators and information about…
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“Stand Together,” an excerpt from The Covid Safety Handbook
The Covid Safety Handbook is informed by the global, national, local, and neighborhood care circles coming together under the banner of Covid prevention to center science, accurate and non-judgemental information, inclusiveness, and equity in public health. This book draws strength from all the tireless variant hunters and wastewater trackers around the world who struggle to…
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Invisible defenses: A guide for cleaner indoor air
What if the air in your home could act as a silent shield against illness? Responding to the ongoing risks of COVID-19 and other airborne pathogens, many people have taken measures to improve the air in their homes and other spaces. With so many options, from do-it-yourself (DIY) filters to high-end HEPA machines, how do…
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These are the drag artists and organizers fighting to make queer spaces more COVID safe
Guided by a strong commitment to community care, a diverse group of queer performers, drag kings, and other event organizers are filling the gaps of global government failure during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Through clean air organizations, mask requirements at shows, and other COVID-19 mitigation efforts, they are making public spaces more accessible and safer…
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Outdoor dining fades as pandemic persists — making public spaces even less accessible
Outdoor dining was seemingly everywhere earlier in the pandemic — but as policymakers and much of the public try to forget about COVID-19, spaces for people to gather with lesser risk of contracting the disabling and deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus grow rarer. That’s left individuals and communities who do not want to contract COVID-19 — including…
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