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Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help
A KFF Health News investigation (republished by The Sick Times) reveals that employers and the government have offered nursing aides little assistance for PTSD and other ongoing maladies triggered by hazardous work during the pandemic.
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For people with severe Long COVID, medical care is out of reach
Getting medical help for any severity of Long COVID is challenging. The disease can manifest as over 200 different symptoms, ranging in severity from mildly impacting quality of life to completely debilitating. For those in the most severe categories — who are barely or completely unable to leave their beds — accessing quality care is…
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Introducing Long COVID Essentials, a new resource series
We are excited to announce Long COVID Essentials, a new collaboration between The Sick Times and Long COVID Justice. Over the next several months, we’ll be publishing over 30 resource sheets that provide foundational information about navigating Long COVID. Each sheet can be printed and/or shared as digital PDFs.
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As a doctor, I’m disappointed in my colleagues for ignoring Long COVID. I made a resource to educate them and the public.
As a family physician seeing COVID-19 in my practice, I came to recognize that so many of my colleagues and patients had no idea how to keep themselves safe from the coronavirus, nor were they aware of its long-term risks. I saw the need to take action and effect change, which ultimately led me to…
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Even as a former executive assistant, managing care for Long COVID is a full-time job
Once upon a time, my job was being professionally organized. I was the executive assistant at a major corporation in Chicago. My job entailed various administrative duties, most of them revolving around keeping people organized and where they needed to be. I was excellent at it, made a good living, and mostly felt I was…
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Grappling with Long COVID as an elite athlete
Scientists are working to unravel the mechanisms behind Long COVID and some have turned to studying sports competitors to better understand how it affects intense physical performance. Now, their efforts are beginning to shed light on why Long COVID hits some athletes — especially those in endurance sports — so hard.
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Double trouble: Hypermobility may increase Long Covid risk
“For a middle-aged woman who hasn’t had any actual injuries, I’ve had a huge amount of physical therapy,” says Liza DiLeo Thomas, a 52-year-old emergency medicine doctor in New Orleans and mom to five kids. “My neck muscles were always weak, my knees were bad. In retrospect, I was actually hypermobile, I just didn’t realize…
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In South Africa, Long Covid is an afterthought to Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) and Long Covid are two diseases that have some overlapping symptoms. The two are often mistaken for each other in South Africa. Long Covid is poorly understood and acknowledged in South Africa, and mostly dismissed, say people living with the disease. And it’s worse if you’re Black and poor.
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Frustrations, denials, long drives: Immunocompromised people can’t access a lifesaving Covid-19 drug
A new drug approved months ago to help prevent Covid-19 infections could be a game changer for high-risk people — if they can get their hands on it. But many say they have struggled to access the medication.
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The short reach of Long Covid care
Latinos and African Americans suffer the nation’s highest rates of Long Covid. Yet systematic health care inequality and poor outreach have resulted in clinics with mostly white patient lists. Editor’s note: This story was co-published by palabra., a media platform by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), and WHYY’s The Pulse. It was supported by The Commonwealth…
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