There's been a wave of good pieces on COVID-19 long-haulers in the last few weeks. Here's @tanyabasu in MIT Tech Review on the Body Politic group that organized to research themselves. 1/
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At Buzzfeed, @bri_sacks wrote about the group's recent call with the WHO, as part of their continued efforts to get recognition. 2/
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This one's mine, on how the long-haulers have changed their own landscape over the last couple of months.
I love that all these stories portray the group as protagonists of their own stories, and not victims without agency. 3/
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I hope more stories come out. And as they do, this @fi_lowenstein piece on how to ethically and sensitively report on people who have very little energy to spare will be increasingly important. /Fin
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PS: @rddysum has also been doing great long-hauler stories at the WSJ. See her own thread for her stories thus far:
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