New data from the Household Pulse Survey suggests that almost 20% of Americans who got COVID-19 are currently experiencing Long COVID symptoms. The Household Pulse Survey is a long-running Census project that provides data on how the pandemic has impacted Americans.
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It’s been a somewhat slower week for COVID-19 news, so here’s something a little different: a reflection on a very old episode of Star Trek, in the context of post-viral illness.
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Two new studies on Long COVID, published this week, provide an important reminder of the continued dangers this condition poses to people infected with the coronavirus—even after vaccination. Neither study provides wholly new information, but both are more comprehensive than many other U.S. papers on this condition as they’re based on large databases of electronic health records.
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Sharing a research funding opportunity from Solve M.E., an advocacy and research initiative focused on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), Long COVID, and other related post-viral illnesses.
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Over a year after the NIH received $1 billion to study Long COVID, the agency’s flagship study is floundering and frustrating patient advocates. Here are five reasons why Long COVID research is tough in the U.S., taken from my reporting for a recent Grid story.
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Unlike the U.S., the U.K. has taken steps to estimate how many people in the country are living with Long COVID.
Read MoreData sources and updates for the week of April 24 include COVID-19 on airplanes, death rates by race and ethnicity, Long COVID research, and more.
Read MoreSources and updates for the week of April 10 include safety for large, indoor events; state data reporting frequencies; a new Long COVID task force; COVID-19 testing in schools; and more.
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This week, I had a big retrospective story published at FiveThirtyEight: I looked back at the major metrics that the U.S. has used to track COVID-19 over the past two years—and how our country’s fractured public health system hindered our use of each one.
Read MoreSources and updates for the week of March 6 include COVID-19 relief funding in schools, Long COVID estimates, and more.
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