Long Covid has left me feeling worthless, Labour is making it worse
My name is Sam. I am 52. I am doubly disabled. I am Autistic and I have been disabled with long Covid since 15 March 2020. There are two parts…
David Tennant show cancellations show threat of Covid
The cancellations of Macbeth, with David Tennant in the lead role, has led to questions being raised around the ongoing ambivalence to the continuing public health threat of coronavirus (Covid-19)…
DWP WorkWell could be a disaster for ME/CFS and long Covid
A joint Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) work programme – WorkWell – likely spells more bad news and harm to people…
ME/CFS and long COVID face a deadly morass in modern medicine
Historically, medicine has had a problem with women, especially those who were not married. Sounds unrealistic? The nineteenth century wasn’t that long ago, and many diagnoses and treatments of physical…
Long Covid not even on the general election agenda is very 2024
It doesn’t really matter who gets elected during this years general election for the 1.9 million people living with long Covid or the hundreds of thousands living with myalgic encephalomyelitis…
Long Covid exercise programme: council offers harmful treatment
A council in Northamptonshire has launched a recovery scheme for people living with long Covid. However, the 12-week long Covid exercise programme is centred round incremental exercise. Of course, this…
worker calls out Covid response
It’s day nine of the general election campaign and soon-to-be “former prime minister” Sunak has scuppered any pretence there ever was that he’s a decent, down-to-earth, every-day bloke. Not that…
Lightning Process gaslights long Covid patients
The BBC has exposed how an insidious group of predatory charlatans have been gaslighting long Covid patients. It revolves around a pseudoscientific treatment known as the ‘Lightning Process’. It would…
Unite To Fight conference on ME/CFS & long Covid announced
A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference – ‘Unite To Fight’ – is about to take place for the first time. Already, the event is…
Long Covid numbers in UK hit two million people
New government statistics have confirmed what millions of people already knew. Specifically, this was that cases of long Covid across the UK are rampant and ever on the rise –…