The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis

“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games | Kate Fishman
▻https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games

Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats of COVID-19 and Long COVID. Whether through the cathartic storytelling in indie designers’ interactive theater projects or learning opportunities woven into popular video games, playing games can help people make informed decisions amid the Long COVID crisis. Source: The Sick Times

An international emergency task force is urgently needed for Severe Long COVID and ME crisis cases
▻https://thesicktimes.org/2025/04/04/an-international-emergency-task-force-is-urgently-needed-for-severe-lo

What other illness gives the least attention to the most affected?” asked Clare Norton, in her devastating account of her daughter Merryn Croft’s existence before she died of Very Severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in 2017 at the age of 21. Source: The Sick Times

COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke
▻https://thesicktimes.org/2025/01/10/covid-19-advocates-are-distributing-masks-to-protect-californians-from

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 Source: The Sick Time

With no approved treatments and little support, people with Long COVID turn to online drug markets | Hannah Buttle
▻https://thesicktimes.org/2024/12/12/with-no-approved-treatments-and-little-support-people-with-long-covid-

With no approved treatments, lack of support, and stigma against the disease, many people with Long COVID are using overseas pharmacies to source medications. Some of these treatments are widely used for other conditions, such as HIV and hepatitis C, but are not approved for use in Long COVID. Source: The Sick Times