Greetings, public health PHANs! We are busy as always here and want to share some of the work we’re doing, as well as highlighting other great work and writing from the COVID-conscious community. - We’ve created a new Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. section on our website with several explainers on the disease and a list of Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. clinics, plus our new collection of “Living with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. Stories”, including a new story from Julia Doubleday about Ellie, who used to be a traveler but is now mostly home-bound with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19..
- This Saturday April 26th, we’ll again host a breakout room at the PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Pals online meeting on Zoom, on at 5pm PT/8pm ET. Check their Google Doc on Saturday for the Zoom link.
- We’re continuing to make progress on SAFER, our global resources directory for COVID-conscious and clean airAir free of pollutants, including viruses, bacteria, and harmful particles. folks.
- We recently took part in one of the “Rising Hope” COVID-conscious community meetings on Zoom, and we’ll review their group and some other online community resources.
- And we’ll include some recent news articles and upcoming events.
If you know of events that should go in our next newsletter, please email them to us at media@phan.community. On to the newsletter! |
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COME EXPLORE The new long covidPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. section of our website! |
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We’re excited to announce a new section on Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. on our website with several new pages. We now have explainers on nearly every aspect of the disease: We’ve also started a series of “Living with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. Stories”, with a new story from Julia Doubleday about Ellie who used to be a traveler but is now mostly home-bound with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. and feels like she’s practically disappeared from “normal” life. This story joins the essays from Steph Fowler and Julia Doubleday about their own experiences with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19.. We hope these will be useful resources to you. If you find them useful, please share them with friends! |
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Phan TO host a breakout room at the pandemicA global outbreak of a disease. pals zoom meeting this Saturday |
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We are delighted to announce that this Saturday, April 26th, we’ll again be joining the PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Collaborative’s regular weekly meeting on Zoom at 5pm PDT/8pm EDT. We’ll have our own breakout room where PHAN staff will introduce our organization, talk about our mission and our team, talk about some of our upcoming projects, and provide a demonstration of the SAFER global resources directory. You can call into the Zoom meeting by going to their Google Doc and using the Zoom link that they’ll put in the document sometime today or Saturday. We’re excited to be able to talk with folks directly in these meetings! |
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update on our “safer” resources directory |
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We’re making great progress on one of our first projects: SAFER, a global resources directory for folks who are COVID-conscious, dealing with Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19., or interested in clean airAir free of pollutants, including viruses, bacteria, and harmful particles. technology and advocacy. The directory will include COVID/Long-COVID/clean-air advocacy and support organizations, COVID-conscious businesses and healthcare providers, mask blocs, clean airAir free of pollutants, including viruses, bacteria, and harmful particles. clubs, Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. providers, C02 monitoring, and other related businesses and groups around the world. We now have over 5000 entries that are continuing to be vetted, and that’s just to start! Anyone will be able to access the directory by browsing categories, searching by name or area, or finding entries geographically on a map. This data will all be free with no account or login required, and we’ll be happy to share our collected resources data back with anyone. We’re so excited about this project and can’t wait to make it available to everyone! More details coming soon! |
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We’re hearing about more online COVID-aware communities which can be great sources of friendship and information, as well as great ways to overcome the sense of isolationSeparating sick individuals from healthy ones to prevent disease spread. that many of us are feeling. Check these Zoom groups and online discussion forums, and let us know if you hear of other groups that should be included here (email us at info@publichealthactionnetwork.org): - PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Pals weekly Zoom calls: every Saturday, the PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Collaborative hosts this call that is inclusive and welcoming to all. They offer several breakout rooms based on age-groups, life situations, special interests, or just for general hanging out.
- Rising Hope calls on Zoom: a community of COVID-conscious folks that meet Monday evenings, Saturday afternoons, and Sunday mornings for church services.
- COVID19 group on Reddit: “This subreddit seeks to facilitate scientific discussion of this potential global public health threat.” (607K members)
- COVID Long Haulers group on Reddit: “A community for individuals suffering from the effects of COVID-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness. longer than the estimated 4 weeks, also known as PACS, PASC, and Long CovidPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19..” (68K members)
- Zero Covid Community on Reddit: “a place where people who are passionate about reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2The virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. / Covid-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness. and protecting those who are at high risk can come together with a shared vision for the future.” (28K members)
- COVID Meetups: from World Health Network
- WHN’s Discord Community: from World Health Network
- Covid Safe Hotties: an online community and archive to help spread timely, science-based information about COVID-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness., with discussion spaces for discussion, information, and resources.
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We’re seeking volunteers! |
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If you’d like to help make a world that supports folks being COVID-conscious, where anyone can find the Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. healthcare they need, and where everyone has access to clean indoor air, we want you! We’re ramping up quickly and would love to have you on our team. We’re looking for volunteers in the following areas: Project Management Volunteer Coordinaters SAFER: people who can call and vet businesses and organizations; people who can organize spreadsheets, look up URLs and find addresses, locations, download images, etc.; and website/Wordpress developers CLEAN/CLEAR: fullstack developers, AI (Deepseek, LLM trainers, etc), researchers, NLP experts, psychiatrists AIRWISE: Game Developers (Unity preferred) who understand physics engines Communications: social media, graphic designers, writers, storytellers, fundraisers, photographers, videographers, news curators If you match any of those needs, fill out our contact form on our website and one of us will get back to you as soon as we can. If you have other skills or experience that you think might help our work, go ahead and fill out our form, and we’ll find a way for you to help! Thank you to everyone who’s considering volunteering with us – we really appreciate it! |
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UPcoming events of interest |
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And now a word from The vertlartniC |
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April 24th, 2025, California State University-Sacramento: Sac State researchers study Long COVID’s impact on hearing, ‘brain fog’. “A pair of Sac State professors are studying the link between such symptoms and COVID infection and providing therapy that typically is used to treat patients with brain injuries and auditory processing problems. Though the study is in its early stages, the approach seems to be working for some participants…D’Angelo and Venkitakrishnan [the two professors involved] said the study is one of only a few that have explored hearing issues related to COVID. It also is among a handful of studies that have included treatment.” April 9th, 2025, CIDRAP: Studies: Nearly 1 in 7 U.S. working age adults report Long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19., with heaviest burden on the poor. “Yesterday in Communications Medicine, Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH, of Northeastern University, analyzed data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from September and November 2022 and August to October 2023 on more than 375,000 US adults, including nearly 50,000 with self-reported long COVID…About 35 million adults and 30 million working-age adults, or roughly 1 in 7, said they had experienced long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. by late 2022 and 2023. Lost wages due to long COVIDPersistent symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. among working-age survey respondents were estimated at $211 billion in 2022 and $218 billion in 2023.” |
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Thank you for being a public health advocate, From The entire PHAN team |
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