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Germany’s “Reha” clinics aren’t set up for Long COVID. And patients are reporting harm.
The country’s pension insurance system pushes people to go through rehabilitation (“Reha”) clinics before they can access disability supports.
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Building a “community wiki” of Long COVID care: Salvatore Mattera on the Help for Long COVID review site
In spring 2025, Salvatore and Stephanie Mattera launched the new site Help for Long COVID, inspired by Salvatore’s challenges finding healthcare after he developed the disease. Managing editor Betsy Ladyzhets spoke to Salvatore Mattera about the project.
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The crisis is “exasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina
Argentina is facing an invisible Long COVID crisis, marked by a lack of clinics, minimal media attention, no disability insurance to help people with the disease cope with their inability to work, and only a couple of Long COVID studies — all amid a 48% cut to the national health budget under President Javier Milei.
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Still Here, August 11: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here: Comparing and contrasting the BC 007 and rapamycin Long COVID and ME clinical trial designs.
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Still Here, August 6: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here: Recapping the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar.
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Still Here, July 24: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here: Contributing writer Simon Spichak discusses what experts say are Canada’s “contradictory” and “concerning” latest guidelines for Long COVID, the CAN-PCC.
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Left without care: Many Long COVID clinics are closing down in the U.K.
Fewer than half of U.K. Long COVID clinics will stay open this year, according to research from the charity Long COVID Support. At their peak, there were 120 clinics across the U.K., but only 46 have confirmed they will remain open.
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Still Here, July 11: Links and transcript
In this episode of Still Here: Contributing writer Britta Shoot discusses the patchwork of care for people with complex chronic illnesses and how insurance providers create a lose-lose situation for patients and healthcare providers.
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Experts call new Canadian Long COVID guidelines “contradictory” and “deeply concerning”
Guidelines recommend exercise and therapy as treatments, following attempted influence from Paul Garner.
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Priced out: Some Long COVID and ME specialists charge high prices for concierge care
One specialist is charging up to $8,500 a month. But the providers say insurance companies are to blame. Key points you should know: Rachel Graves knows of exactly two neurologists specializing in dysautonomia in Washington state. In addition to dysautonomia, Graves, who lives in Tacoma, has been diagnosed with numerous conditions, including hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome…
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