An Emory global health professor with long COVID describes how, despite medical expertise and specialist access, treatments have brought only partial relief.
Information designer Giorgia Lupi turned years of daily symptom-tracking into a data-visualization essay depicting life with long COVID day by day.
A former long-distance runner and Body Politic's former president argues patients of color remain marginalized even within the long COVID advocacy movement.
Novelist Madeline Miller writes about living with long COVID since 2020, and argues ableism underlies public indifference to long-haulers.
A wry etiquette guide for how not to talk to long-haulers, from an Atlantic writer who developed long COVID after a mild acute infection.
A former firefighter-paramedic describes spending 85% of her time in bed and founding a long-hauler advocacy organization after losing her career.
A former Baltimore teacher describes losing her job, vision, and 30 pounds while doctors repeatedly dismissed her symptoms.
A science journalist wrestles with whether her roughly three-month recovery even counts as "long COVID" given competing official definitions.
A writer describes how 14+ months of debilitating symptoms shifted her husband into primary caregiver, and how the couple worked to reconnect.
A year after infection, two patient-advocate co-authors argue long COVID is a mass-disabling event still largely ignored by policymakers.
Weeks after hospitalization, Fiona Lowenstein still couldn't answer whether she was "better" — an essay that helped spark the Body Politic support group.