5/25/25: Games and Long COVID; being a Long COVID clinical trial participant

In this episode of Still Here: Journalist Kate Fishman talks about how game designers have used their medium to showcase experiences of Long COVID, highlight COVID risk, and offer an opportunity for people to think more deeply about ableism. And science and medicine journalist Felicity Nelson shares her experience participating in a Long COVID clinical trial (for low-dose naltrexone).

Also in this episode: A small preprint published in Research Square looking at post-vaccine syndrome.

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

(00:01:45) Games providing a lens into the Long COVID experience

(00:14:40) Becoming a Long COVID clinical trial participant

(00:25:04) Research

(00:26:30) Outro

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Mentioned in this episode (in order of appearance):

• The Sick Times: “Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games
• The Long COVID Game
• Sierra Club: Online Games Can Deepen Our Attention to Ecology
• Seek by iNaturalist
• Intrapology by Zoyander Street
• The Sick Times: How volunteering to become a lab rat paid off
• The Sick Times: Research updates, May 6

Additional audio in this episode: 

• Rude Mechanical Orchestra: Which Side Are You On? (orig. Florence Reece)