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"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-captures-the-isolation-of
Published: November 10, 2025 18:10
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
Beyond all reason
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all-reason
Published: October 15, 2025 16:17
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-the-lion-concern-himself
Published: October 5, 2025 22:34
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
With RFK's Attacks on the COVID Vaccine It's Official: We Don't Have the Tools
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-attacks-on-the-covid-vaccine
Published: September 19, 2025 13:43
RFK's moves to limit access to the COVID vaccine are the latest in a long line of moves that shrank- rather than expanded- the size of the so-called anti-COVID "toolbox"
Long COVID stigma adds insult to injury
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-stigma-adds-insult-to
Published: September 2, 2025 02:25
It's weird having an illness a lot of people simply don't believe in
Homebound & down
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/homebound-and-down
Published: August 6, 2025 23:55
It's been about a year since my Long COVID symptoms became so severe that I lost the ability to leave home. Psychologically, it's difficult.
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandemic-has-been-a-portal-for
Published: July 22, 2025 02:28
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
Long COVID patients among those likely to be targeted under new Medicaid work requirements
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-patients-among-those-likely
Published: July 11, 2025 13:38
Long COVID patients already struggle to access SSI. Now, Trump's Medicaid work requirements could see chronically ill and disabled people without documentation lose coverage
A Pain in the Neck
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/a-pain-in-the-neck
Published: June 27, 2025 02:01
On getting a Stellate Ganglion Block for my 39th birthday and resolving not to be one of the "good" disabled people
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-is-now-the-number-one
Published: June 16, 2025 01:55
Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health