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Still Here: A Podcast From The Sick Times

Every week, co-hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets talk with podcast producer James Salanga about the latest COVID-19 numbers, and Long COVID news, commentary, and research. No pandemic minimizing, gaslighting, or denial here! Still Here is an abridged version of The Sick Times’ newsletter, which publishes weekly. The Sick Times is a nonprofit newsroom chronicling the ongoing Long COVID crisis.

9/18/25: Recap of 2025 NIH RECOVER-Treating Long COVID workshop

28 mins; September 18, 2025

Interview: Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers on interpreting COVID-19, other disease data

23 mins; September 18, 2025

Interview: Salvatore Mattera on the Help for Long COVID review site, a "community Yelp" for Long COVID care

19 mins; September 06, 2025

8/22/25: Recapping the 2nd Keystone Symposia on Long COVID

23 mins; August 22, 2025

8/19/25: Long COVID clinical trials addressing viral persistence, immune dysfunction

29 mins; August 19, 2025

8/11/25: Looking at the BC 007 and rapamycin Long COVID and ME clinical trials

28 mins; August 11, 2025

8/6/25: Recapping the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar

22 mins; August 06, 2025

7/24/25: New "concerning", "contradictory" Canadian Long COVID guidelines

27 mins; July 24, 2025

7/11/25: Why some ME, Long COVID specialists charge high prices for concierge care

17 mins; July 11, 2025

Interview: Paul Hennessy on local Long COVID, clean air organizing

12 mins; July 01, 2025

6/16/25: Working to ban mask bans in Illinois; Colorado art exhibit uplifting artists with Long COVID

26 mins; July 01, 2025

6/25/25: What's happening with COVID-19 vaccine policy and recommendations?

21 mins; June 25, 2025

6/12/25: Recapping Spring 2025 PolyBio Research Symposium; a Long COVID language revolution

29 mins; June 12, 2025

5/25/25: Games and Long COVID; being a Long COVID clinical trial participant

27 mins; May 25, 2025

5/19/25: Arts events create space for reflection, solidarity; self-advocacy after COVID-19-triggered pulmonary embolism

29 mins; May 19, 2025

Interview: Hannah Davis on the 2025 Keystone Symposia Long COVID conference

13 mins; May 12, 2025

5/6/25: Spinal surgery for rare ME/Long COVID complication; still COVIDing without support

29 mins; May 06, 2025

4/19/25: CDC funding cuts endanger state Long COVID response; poetry about living with Long COVID

28 mins; April 19, 2025

4/12/25: Nuances of tilt table testing; need for Severe Long COVID/ME crisis case task force

29 mins; April 12, 2025

Exit interview: Lisa McCorkell on 5 years with the Patient-Led Research Collaborative

22 mins; April 07, 2025

4/5/25: Long COVID research grants restored in advocacy win; U.S. bird flu update

26 mins; April 05, 2025

3/29/25: Office of Long COVID ordered shut down; a transformative friendship

28 mins; March 29, 2025

3/22/25: Long COVID landscape in India; claiming Long COVID identity

29 mins; March 22, 2025

3/15/2025: Half a decade of Long COVID

25 mins; March 15, 2025

3/9/25: Federal workers with Long COVID; The Sick Times' first hybrid event

25 mins; March 09, 2025

2/28/25: Long COVID federal advisory committee shut down; being a "Long COVID unicorn"

23 mins; February 28, 2025

2/25/25: Invivyd chairman Marc Elia; Long COVID in Mexico

29 mins; February 25, 2025

2/14/25: Preparing for the next pandemic; Long COVID resources taken off government site

29 mins; February 14, 2025

2/7/25: Friendships and the COVID-19 pandemic

28 mins; February 07, 2025

2/1/25: U.S. COVID data amid federal health comunications pause; Affordable Care Act at risk

28 mins; February 01, 2025

1/25/25: Potential blood-based Long COVID biomarker; reflections from a Palestinian with Long COVID

29 mins; January 25, 2025

1/17/25: COVID-19 mutual aid groups keep Los Angeles-area residents safe during wildfires

24 mins; January 17, 2025

1/10/25: The COVID Safety Handbook; end-of-year fundraiser results

26 mins; January 10, 2025

12/20/24: Overseas pharmacies for Long COVID symptom support

24 mins; December 20, 2024

12/13/24: Rock music about living with ME/CFS in the age of COVID

28 mins; December 13, 2024

12/3/24: Long COVID research under Trump; anniversary zine

25 mins; December 03, 2024

11/22/24: Where are kids' Long COVID clinical trials?

24 mins; November 23, 2024

11/15/24: One year of The Sick Times!

29 mins; November 16, 2024

11/10/24: SICK Pride in South Africa; The Sick Times' end-of-year fundraiser

20 mins; November 10, 2024

11/1/24: Mask bloc oral histories

22 mins; November 01, 2024

10/25/24: Low-dose naltrexone in clinical trials

23 mins; October 26, 2024

10/18/24: New Mount Sinai Long COVID center

20 mins; October 18, 2024

10/11/24: Honoring Tinu Abayomi-Paul

19 mins; October 11, 2024

10/4/24: Recapping the NIH RECOVER-TLC kickoff

23 mins; October 04, 2024

Trailer: Still Here

1 min; October 03, 2024

Still Here: A Podcast From The Sick Times

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