Readings
We asked our speakers to recommend readings that they think would speak to the theme of Long Covid and Society. Some of these texts are meant as provocations and serve as basis for our discussions on April 20.
Some Texts
If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to reach out!
- Cynthia Adinig. “One New Long COVID Case Every Minute in the United States“. CYNAERA.
- Cynthia Adinig. “Intimate Partner Violence Risk in Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions: The RAVYNS™ Projection Model“. CYNAERA.
- Ziyad Al-Aly et al. 2024. Long COVID science, research and policy” Nature Medicine.
- Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, and Gabrielle Finestone. 2022. “Long covid and medical gaslighting: Dismissal, delayed diagnosis, and deferred treatment“. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health.
- Alba Azola and Emily Mendenhall. 2026. “The Current Culture of Medicine Is Failing People With Long COVID“. Science Politics.
- Dominique Grandjean et al. 2022. “Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Persistence in Long COVID Patients using Sniffer Dogs and Scents from Axillary Sweats Samples” Journal of Clinical Trials.
- Flora Cornish et al. 2025. “The erasure of infection-associated chronic conditions: Critical interpretive synthesis of literature on healthcare for long COVID and related conditions in Brazil“. Global Public Health.
- Gil Eyal, Larry Au, and Cristian Capotescu. 2024. “Trust is a Verb!: A Critical Reconstruction of the Sociological Theory of Trust“. Sociologica.
- Global Feminisms Project. 2022. “Long COVID Interviews“.
- Vox Jo Hsu et al. 2025. “Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions“. Medical Humanities.
- Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva et al. 2025. “Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil”. Sociology of Health & Illness.
- Phillip Hoover. 2025. “You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.” The Sick Times.
- Cédric Lemogne et al. 2024. “National committee statement as a missed opportunity to acknowledge the relevance of a biopsychosocial approach in understanding long COVID.” Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
- Emily Lim Rogers. 2025. “Lesbian AIDS: An Illness of One’s Own?” Signs.
- Emily Mendenhall. 2025. “Long COVID and the Rise of Digital Patient Activism“. Current History.
- Emily Mendenhall, Shreeja Banerjee, and Ayo Wahlberg. 2025. “Interembodiment among Long Haulers and their carers“. Social Science & Medicine.
- Sarah Ann Singer. 2026. The Patient Empowerment Paradox. University of South Carolina Press.
- Ed Yong. 2023. “Fatigue can shatter a person”. The Atlantic.
- Johanna Hedva. 2020. “Notes on Activism (AKA Notes on Failure)” in How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom.
- Julia Moore Vogel. 2025. “5 Years Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, Millions Like Me Are Still Sick”. US News & World Report.
Long Covid & Society 