In this episode: Disability visibility via SICK Pride in South Africa and The Sick Times' end-of-year fundraiser. Sam Pearce, a Cape Town-based writer living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and Mlindeni Gabela, the Long COVID Ambassador for ME and Long COVID Unite South Africa, share their experience organizing SICK Pride, an event creating visibility for their illnesses. Co-hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk with podcast producer James Salanga about The Sick Times' end of year fundraiser. Also in this episode: the latest COVID-19 numbers, and an $800,000 grant for a clinical trial of a repurposed drug that could help with immune or infection-related dysfunction in Long COVID. The transcript for this podcast is available on The Sick Times' website. You can jump to specific sections of the podcast and transcript below. (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:16) COVID-19 trends (00:03:58) Top story — SICK Pride (00:12:15) Top story — End-of-year fundraiser (00:18:12) Research — Rapamycin clinical trial (00:20:06) Outro and credits Donate to our end-of-year fundraiser and have your donation matched up to $1,000 — both one-time and monthly donations will be matched! Still Here is an abridged version of The Sick Times’ newsletter, which publishes weekly. Sign up here. You can also find our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. - Mentioned in this episode (in order of appearance): The Sick Times: National COVID-19 trends, November 5CDC wastewater dashboardBiobot wastewater risk reportsWastewaterSCAN dashboardU.S. free COVID tests: COVID-19 Testing The Sick Times: We set out to make our 'invisible illness' visible in South Africa with SICK PrideThe Sick Times: Support Long COVID journalism in our end-of-year fundraiserThe Sick Times: Research updates, November 5The Sick Times: Still Here, October 18The Sick Times: New Long COVID and complex disease center at Mount Sinai set to be a leader in research, clinical care Additional audio in this episode: Rude Mechanical Orchestra: Which Side Are You On? (orig. Florence Reece) Pixabay: Thunder and the beginning of rainfall
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