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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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$11 billion CDC funding cuts may decimate Long COVID response in several states
Long COVID research and communications projects in several states may be forced to shut down or curtail their efforts due to recent Trump administration cuts to public health funding. In these cuts, announced in late March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly canceled $11 billion in grants for COVID-19 and public health…
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What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk
When H5N1 first landed in North America, borne on the wings of migratory birds blown off course from Europe in late 2021, Seema Lakdawala followed the developments closely, but she wasn’t overly worried about it leading to a pandemic in humans yet. There were still a few steps the highly pathogenic avian influenza needed to…
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National COVID-19 trends, April 1
The U.S. remains in a lull between COVID-19 surges: disease spread continues to be at similar, moderate levels to what we’ve seen for the last month. While national metrics all report plateaus or slight declines, there are indicators of potential early-spring increases in some places. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s cuts to local public health funding…
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“There is no money to survive”: Long COVID pushes India’s marginalized workers deeper into poverty
While research on Long COVID in India is scarce, studies and people’s experiences suggest that the pandemic has deepened socioeconomic inequalities in the country. Among the hardest hit are marginalized workers, including daily wage laborers and cleaners, whose livelihoods depend on intense physical labor. For them, Long COVID is not just a health and disability…
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False hope: In Sub-Saharan Africa, wars damage Long COVID research and surveillance
In summer 2023, clinical nurse Rino Da Costa was well into recruiting participants for a study to monitor Long COVID cases in Naquitengue, a village in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. It was a promising research endeavor until a flaring of gunfighting sunk her efforts.
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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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How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic
Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states, by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading. Now…
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