~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...
Today @thesicktimes.org: Writer Corina Maller examines transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), an intervention many people with Long COVID and ME are trying with mixed results. thesicktimes.org/2026/04/21/a...
ID: An image shows a selfie of Mustafa Talat, a Pakistani doctor, in personal protective equipment including a high quality mask and hooded coverall suit. He also wears stylish wire framed glasses. The image is repeated three times - two of them have a light blue filter. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. By Mustafa Talat.”
We’re here, we’re still practicing, and we deserve better than silence and self-management. Medicine asked for our bodies. It’s time medicine made space for what became of them.
Mustafa Talat developed #LongCOVID after working the first COVID-19 wave in a hospital in 2020. Without clear diagnostic criteria, he received no diagnosis despite limiting symptoms. The system that trained him to diagnose couldn’t acknowledge what had happened. bit.ly/4vFu9Yz
After Condé Nast's decision to close SELF, I spoke to chronically ill women about what the women's health site meant to them.
"We have to acknowledge chronic illness as a politically, culturally, and socially marginalized category"
Latest for @motherjones.com.
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With so much in Los Angeles falling apart, that Karen Bass is investing her political capitol on hiring 510 more police officers is wild.
Thank you for notifying us!
We want to talk to anyone in prison who thinks they may have Long COVID, and would appreciate readers sharing this call for sources with any loved ones, friends, or contacts. People in prison have limited access to information, so they may not know much about what Long COVID is. Rather than just asking if someone has Long COVID, you may need to explain that a person might have it if they got COVID-19 and never felt they really got all the way better or if an old health issue got a lot worse after COVID-19. Anyone with ideas for sources should contact reporter October Krausch by May 31 at rebelprof@proton.me If writing from the prison: The Sick Times Attn: October Krausch PO Box 331009 Brooklyn, NY 11233
Reporter @octoberk.bsky.social is working with The Sick Times on an investigation about the experience of #LongCOVID in prison, which will also highlight how people outside of prisons can advocate on this issue.
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
Spoke today at the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago about Long COVID, the impacts of patient collaboration, and the progress our field is making. Very grateful for the opportunity to spread the word and for the organizers to include a patient on the panel!
Screenshot of The Sick Times article. Headline: “I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.” Written by Mustafa Talat, April 17, 2026. Image shows three side-by-side photos of the same person wearing protective medical gear, including a mask, goggles, and hooded suit. The central image is clearer, while the two on either side are tinted blue. Caption reads: Photo courtesy of Mustafa Talat.
"I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me"
"6 years later, COVID-19 continues spreading, killing, and disabling people, but many of my colleagues ignore it. Last December, a colleague said, “We can’t keep doing this. COVID is basically over”
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I'm working on a story for @thesicktimes.org about RECOVER clinical trial results that have been shared so far (from the VITAL, NEURO, and AUTONOMIC studies), and am looking for people in the #LongCOVID and IACC communities to share what they think of the findings. DM or email me!
This is a huge honor both for me and for our whole team at The Sick Times. Thank you INN!!!
📣GREAT NEWS📣 Just spoke to Hill champions: your hundreds of calls & emails are making such a difference, they've extended deadline for Senator sign-on to #FundLongCOVID Dear Colleague letter to MONDAY APRIL 20 10am ET! More @lccampaign.bsky.social details incoming, senators now signed: 1/x
First Teen Vogue and now SELF 😭
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Heck yes, @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social! You deserve this!
Congrats to all the amazing 2026 nominees in non-profit news! Full list below:
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This is our second INNYs nomination at @thesicktimes.org!
Last year, our all star engagement editor, @heatherhogan.bsky.social, was nominated as a Nonprofit Newcomer of the Year. I'm so proud of our four-person newsroom and all we do despite the heavy stigma on Long COVID.
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A film photo of Betsy Ladzyhets. She is a white woman in her 20s with short brown hair. She stands beside a green door and wears a light blue button up shirt and an N-95 mask.
A screenshot from the INN award nominees reads: Emerging Leader of the Year Honors an individual with less than five years in executive leadership who is an emerging luminary in the field. Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, The Maine Monitor Khadijah Bland, The Kansas City Defender Betsy Ladyzhets, The Sick Times Tonya Hart, Cardinal News Join INN for the 2026 Nonprofit News Awards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 16: Join the waitlist (finalists will be prioritized for attendance).
Let's give @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social her flowers 💐!
She's been nominated as an emerging leader by @inn.org as a luminary in non-profit news. Beyond her incredible reporting/editing on #LongCOVID, Betsy does so much unsung work that makes The Sick Times the force that it is. #INNYs2026
A collage graphic shows an image of a Black woman wearing a KN95 mask and headscarf, against a background with images of the coronavirus and the ocean. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe. Researchers and advocates are trying to change that. By Jamie Ducharme.”
!["We are not treating [Long COVID] with as much seriousness as we should be treating it. And when that doesn’t happen, then people don’t open up." - Sourya Sidhhartha Dash, Long COVID advocate in India](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreigtd5uftvlqngbmueznfm3ubjvtxrt6y3nr5ajmtxsfrveahmamli)
"We are not treating [Long COVID] with as much seriousness as we should be treating it. And when that doesn’t happen, then people don’t open up." - Sourya Sidhhartha Dash, Long COVID advocate in India
Long COVID, which has affected more than 400 million people around the world, is often underreported, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. bit.ly/4dQALNd
A microscopic scientific shows blood cells floating through an artery. They are small red disks and they hover in the scene encased in a blood vessel with yellow inner lining. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Long COVID research updates. New report: Long COVID may cost OECD economies over $135 billion per year over the next decade. New study: Long COVID is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Small study: Identified persistent immune dysregulation and coagulation in people with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) from COVID-19 vaccines.”
A new report found that Long COVID may cost OECD international economies over $135 billion per year over the next decade. And even this number may be an undercount, the authors stated. The study covers 38 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Authors of the report stated that disability supports for people with Long COVID are key and that prevention of the disease is paramount. Still, they failed to mention any prevention efforts beyond vaccination, ignoring masking and clean air infrastructure. “The virus continues, and will continue, to weigh on societies and economies for years to come,” one of the study’s coordinators told the Financial Times.
Long COVID is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a new study in The Lancet found. Conducted in Sweden, the study included the electronic healthcare records of 1.2 million people and found that nearly 1% had a diagnosis for the disease. Still, the authors acknowledge this may be a significant undercount. The researchers did not include people who had been hospitalized with COVID-19. They found that women with Long COVID diagnoses were about twice as likely to have cardiac problems — including arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease — as women in the control group. The rate of these heart diseases for men with Long COVID was about 1.3 times higher than men in the control group.
![A small study identified persistent immune dysregulation and coagulation in people with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) from COVID-19 vaccines. The study, published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, compared the blood of 14 people with PVS to 16 healthy controls. They found “protein-level changes linked to persistent inflammation, coagulopathy [issues with blood clotting], and contributing to immune dysregulation.” The authors concluded that some of the alterations overlapped with Long COVID, but that specific proteins may provide molecular differences between PVS and Long COVID.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreigcqyd6i3ypc2j7lkfkjgi2lbmi7vfka4d2pe7n67jwujoj3mjzxu)
A small study identified persistent immune dysregulation and coagulation in people with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) from COVID-19 vaccines. The study, published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, compared the blood of 14 people with PVS to 16 healthy controls. They found “protein-level changes linked to persistent inflammation, coagulopathy [issues with blood clotting], and contributing to immune dysregulation.” The authors concluded that some of the alterations overlapped with Long COVID, but that specific proteins may provide molecular differences between PVS and Long COVID.
💸 New report: Long COVID may cost OECD economies over $135 billion per year
🫀 New study: Long COVID is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease
💉 Small study: Identified persistent immune dysregulation and coagulation in people with PVS from COVID-19 vaccines
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Thank you for having me on! We’re all Dorothy 😭 and need more Roses!!!
This week I talked to @mileswgriffis.bsky.social, editor of @thesicktimes.org, about "The Golden Girls," MECFS, queer communities on Covid, doing journalism while disabled and much more.
Link to full episode and story below.
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Latest episode out now! Ft. @matiangai.bsky.social discussing how the interests of whiteness have often dominated global public health policy and how the long shadow of medical colonialism shows up today.
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Drawn image of the U.S. Capitol dome, with the words underneath: Long COVID patients have waited too long for TESTS, TRIALS & TREATMENTS. #FundLongCOVID
📣U.S. Action Item: #pwLC #POTS #pwME #NEISVoid we need your help! Will you contact your Senators & ask them to sign on to the FY27 Senate “Dear Colleague” Letter for over $210 million to #FundLongCOVID in 2027 Appropriations using our EASY low-spoons call/email tool?🧵
the collective need to "move on" from COVID has resulted in so many people not getting the support they need, including even knowing they are sick.
A great overview of a problem I suspect is really exacerbated in prisons - ppl just don't know what's happening to them
(still looking for sources!)
Looking forward to it!
