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New COVID-19 vaccine guidance fuels confusion, uncertainty for older adults
By failing to adopt blanket age-based COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has created uncertainty among physicians and adults, including seniors. Rather than following previous ACIP guidance, the committee issued a watered-down recommendation for the 2025-26 vaccine season. They replaced the broad age-based advice the committee previously issued with a new…
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How to cover the ongoing confusion over COVID vaccines
The confusion around COVID vaccine recommendations and access in the fall of 2025 is reminiscent of the first months of 2021 when the vaccines first became available. Back then, most access barriers arose from logistical and supply-chain issues. Now, barriers have been created by HHS policy (or lack thereof) and a patchwork of laws in…
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Long COVID as an accountability story: Ideas and reporting tips from experts
Covering long COVID as an accountability story: Story ideas and reporting tips from experts Moderator: Betsy Ladyzhets, founder and co-editor, The Sick Times Alison Cohen, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, University of California San Francisco Miles Griffis, executive editor, The Sick Times Pato Hebert, chair, NYU Tisch Department of Art and Public Policy; visual…
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The Sick Times’ long COVID coverage philosophy and writing opportunities
We shared part 1 of a Q&A yesterday with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis, the journalists who founded The Sick Times in 2023, a publication focusing on COVID-19, long COVID and related long-term conditions of viral illnesses. Check out how they came up with the idea of starting The Sick Times and secured funding. Then…
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Long COVID journalists share how they founded The Sick Times
Most publications in 2025 write about the pandemic as though it’s over, but as of February 15, 2025, 1.1% of all U.S. deaths in the past week were due to COVID-19. Even in 2023 — the most recent year for which data are available — COVID-19 remained one of the top 10 causes of death…
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Tips for covering the controversy surrounding pulse oximeters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in early January released a proposed guidance document advising how manufacturers should evaluate and label pulse oximeters used for medical purposes. Pulse oximeters — noninvasive devices placed on a finger and used to measure a patient’s blood oxygen level and pulse — are used commonly in medical settings. The…
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Resources : Disability—a chronic omission in health equity that must be central to Canada’s post-pandemic recovery
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