Tag: ryan prior
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“Long Haul” Author Ryan Prior on Why Long Covid Is a “Political” Term and Related Stuff
Last month, The Nation published a wide-ranging overview of the impact of long Covid on the United States by Fiona Lowenstein and Ryan Prior. Called The Long Covid Revolution, the article proposed a number of steps for addressing the fallout and highlighted the critical role of grass-roots patient movements in pushing for change. Lowenstein is…
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Correctives from Putrino & Iwasaki (and Others) to the Long-Covid-Is-Psychosomatic Claims
When the pandemic began, everyone involved in the ME, CFS, and ME/CFS domain assumed that there would be a wave of post-acute, prolonged complications, since every virus seems to leave in its wake a small but still significant number of people who report a range of non-specific symptoms. It was also widely predicted that many…
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Journalist Ryan Prior Discusses His Upcoming Book on Long Covid, The Long Haul
CNN journalist Ryan Prior is the author of an upcoming book on long Covid called The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever. Ryan, who is 32, has struggled with ME/CFS for half of his life—he first got sick in October, 2006, just before his…
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Ryan Prior on Biden’s Plans; Physician with Long Covid; Writers Discuss ME’s Impact
I’ve sometimes highlighted interesting or enlightening articles, blog posts, and podcasts I’ve read or heard/watched. I’m trying to make sure to keep up with that effort. That’s not always easy, given the volume of material now being produced about ME/CFS, long Covid, so-called “medically unexplained symptoms,” and related issues. But here are a few more.…
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Coupla More Posts Worth Reading
Ryan Prior is a CNN journalist who told the story of his own ME/CFS diagnosis and illness in the 2015 documentary Forgotten Plague. (I’m interviewed in the film.) On Sunday, he told the story of a friend he met as a result of the film, and the choice she made last year to end her…