“In a survey of about 1,500 people with disabilities … 21% of those with Long Covid reported housing insecurity, compared to 8% for those without.”

—John Loeppky, The Sick Times

WNYC: Long Covid Showed Me the Bottom of American Healthcare

Audience members, many of them wearing respirator masks, participate in a live discussion.

Long Covid Patients Among Those Likely to Be Targeted Under New Medicaid Work Requirements

WNYC July 12, 2025

A handwritten sign reads, "Save Medicaid!"

THE GAUNTLET July 11, 2025

Long Covid Is Increasing Housing Insecurity, but Support Programs Fail to Help

A person sits cross-legged on a city sidewalk, huddled in a winter coat. They hold a cardboard sign that reads: \"COVID sucks, hard and lonely times, thank you.\" There is a white bucket sitting front of them, reading: \"Anything helps, God bless.\"

THE SICK TIMES June 17, 2025

Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the U.S.

A small group of unhoused activists with the Poor Peoples Army gathers in Humboldt Park on August 17, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois, to protest the increasing criminalization of homelessness.

An International Emergency Task Force Is Urgently Needed for Severe Long Covid and ME Crisis Cases

TRUTHOUT May 9, 2025

A person in an eye mask and headphones lies on the ground for a demonstration for Severe ME/CFS Awareness Day in Berlin, Germany, on August, 9, 2023. Maria Wagner / Wiki Commons

THE SICK TIMES April 4, 2025

Long Covid Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

A woman sits in a haze. Photo-illustration by Ina Jang.

THE ATLANTIC April 1, 2025

Trump's War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People

Mother Jones illustration; Denver Post/Getty; Evan Vucci/AP

MOTHER JONES January 31, 2025

Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long Covid Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards

Erin, a 43-year-old Long COVID patient, says she was pushed into psychiatric care. She is lying on her bed with her eyes closed in the dark, lit only by a window.

TIME January 14, 2025

For People With Severe Long Covid, Medical Care Is Out of Reach

In a bedroom, viewed through an open doorway, a woman (Dianna Cowern, photographed by Kaelyn Lynch) lies in bed. The room is dark with just a faint source of light coming in from a window with heavy curtains.

THE SICK TIMES September 17, 2024

Maeve Boothby O’Neill's Death “Wholly Preventable,” Says Mother

Maeve Boothby O'Neill on her 18th birthday. She is pictured outside, smiling, with curly brown hair and bangs.

BBC August 1, 2024

In Communities of Color, Long Covid Patients Are Tired of Being Sick and Neglected

Jeanine Hays assembles the daily medication she must take before breakfast, a morning ritual for the long-covid sufferer. (Yehyun Kim/For The Washington Post)

THE WASHINGTON POST May 28, 2024

HIV May Increase the Risk of Long Covid. Why Aren’t Major Advocacy Groups Addressing It?

A stock photo of a hand pinning a red ribbon, representing HIV, to a white shirt.

THE SICK TIMES December 5, 2023

Still On the Margins: Long Covid Patients of Color

Angela Meriquez Vázquez testifies at the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. She is wearing a black top, a gray blazer, and a tan KN95 mask.

DISABILITY VISIBILITY PROJECT December 2, 2023

Forced Treatment and ME/CFS: Why Psychiatric Abolition and ME Activism Are Intertwined

A graphic showing the title of the piece and a small illustration of a person being pushed in a wheelchair by a medical worker. This graphic is superimposed on a light blue background with a chain link fence motif.

ME AND MORE August 18, 2023

A woman in red sits before a setting sun as runners in blue speed past her under the stars and moon.

Fatigue Can Shatter a Person

THE ATLANTIC July 27, 2023

Long Covid Is More Common in Bisexual and Trans People

An abstract illustration showing a blurred figure of a person holding the end of a squiggly line or rope piled on the ground. The line reaches into the foreground. The blurred person is somewhat far away, facing away from the viewer.

THEM July 27, 2022

First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless

ROLLING STONE February 25, 2022