Still Here: A Podcast From The Sick Times
Still Here: A Podcast From The Sick Times
The Sick Times

Still Here: A Podcast From The Sick Times

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Every week, co-hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets talk with podcast producer Melanie Marich about the latest COVID-19 numbers, and Long COVID news, commentary, and research. No pandemic minimizing, gaslighting, or denial here!

Still Here is an abridged version of The Sick Times’ newsletter, which publishes weekly. The Sick Times is a nonprofit newsroom chronicling the ongoing Long COVID crisis.
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“The Way Disabled People Love Each Other”: In conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
09 April 2026

“The Way Disabled People Love Each Other”: In conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha

What can love look like when you’re disabled — and how do you write about grief when the crisis is still ongoing? In this episode of Still Here, hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets sit down with poet, author, and disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha to discuss their new poetry collection, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other.Leah shares how the book came to be, what...
What is the federal government currently doing about Long COVID?
02 April 2026

What is the federal government currently doing about Long COVID?

In this episode of Still Here, hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk about the latest updates from the US Department of Health and Human Services and their efforts on Long COVID, as well as the criticisms they face from members of the community.Subscribe to Still Here wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review, telling us what you think of this episode.
Long COVID Awareness Day 2026: Inside the growing organizing efforts to recognize the disease
27 March 2026

Long COVID Awareness Day 2026: Inside the growing organizing efforts to recognize the disease

Long COVID Awareness Day is gaining official recognition around the world, driven by a growing network of people with Long COVID and their allies. In our season two premiere of Still Here, hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk to Nicholas Rodelo of Clean Air Los Angeles about how he and his fellow organizers secured a City Council resolution recognizing Long COVID Awareness Day, and how...
9/18/25: Recap of 2025 NIH RECOVER-Treating Long COVID workshop
18 September 2025

9/18/25: Recap of 2025 NIH RECOVER-Treating Long COVID workshop

In this episode of Still Here, the finale of our season 1 ends the way it started, with a recap of the latest RECOVER-TLC workshop.The transcript for this episode can be ⁠⁠⁠⁠found on our website⁠⁠⁠⁠, or jump to a specific part of the podcast below: (00:00:00) ⁠⁠Intro⁠⁠(00:01:30) ⁠⁠Recap of 2025 RECOVER-TLC workshop(00:28:00) ⁠Outro⁠-Mentioned in this episode (in order of appearance):The Sick...
Interview: Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers on interpreting COVID-19, other disease data
18 September 2025

Interview: Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers on interpreting COVID-19, other disease data

In this 2-way episode of Still Here: Co-host Betsy Ladyzhets interviews Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of the popular newsletter, Force of Infection, as well as the book Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks. Rivers discussed which data sources she relies on for her trend updates, interpreting data...
Interview: Salvatore Mattera on the Help for Long COVID review site, a "community Yelp" for Long COVID care
06 September 2025

Interview: Salvatore Mattera on the Help for Long COVID review site, a "community Yelp" for Long COVID care

In this 2-way episode of Still Here: In spring 2025, Salvatore and Stephanie Mattera launched the new site Help for Long COVID, inspired by Salvatore’s challenges finding healthcare after he developed the disease. Salvatore talks with podcast co-host Betsy Ladyzhets about how the project — which he describes as a community Wikipedia-type database — came about, feedback they’ve received so far,...
8/22/25: Recapping the 2nd Keystone Symposia on Long COVID
22 August 2025

8/22/25: Recapping the 2nd Keystone Symposia on Long COVID

In this episode of Still Here: A two-way between Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets comparing and contrasting Long COVID and ME clinical trial designs for drugs targeting immune dysregulation and viral persistence.The transcript for this episode can be ⁠⁠⁠found on our website⁠⁠⁠, or jump to a specific part of the podcast below: (00:00:00) ⁠Intro⁠(00:01:36) ⁠Recap of 2nd Keystone Symposia on Long...
8/19/25: Long COVID clinical trials addressing viral persistence, immune dysfunction
19 August 2025

8/19/25: Long COVID clinical trials addressing viral persistence, immune dysfunction

In this episode of Still Here: A two-way between Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets comparing and contrasting Long COVID and ME clinical trial designs for drugs targeting immune dysregulation and viral persistence.The transcript for this episode can be ⁠⁠⁠found on our website⁠⁠⁠, or jump to a specific part of the podcast below: (00:00:00) Intro(00:01:05) 2-way: Long COVID clinical trial design for...
8/11/25: Looking at the BC 007 and rapamycin Long COVID and ME clinical trials
12 August 2025

8/11/25: Looking at the BC 007 and rapamycin Long COVID and ME clinical trials

In this episode of Still Here: A two-way between Felicity Nelson and Betsy Ladyzhets comparing and contrasting the BC 007 and rapamycin Long COVID and ME clinical trial designs.The transcript for this episode can be ⁠⁠found on our website⁠⁠, or jump to a specific part of the podcast below: (00:00:00) Intro(00:01:15) 2-way: Long COVID clinical trial design, BC 007 and rapamycin (00:27:47)...
8/6/25: Recapping the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar
06 August 2025

8/6/25: Recapping the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar

In this episode of Still Here: The Sick Times' team recaps the Patient-Led Research Fund summer 2025 webinar. Plus, an update about the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER-Treating Long COVID initiative. The transcript for this episode can be ⁠found on our website⁠, or jump to a specific part of the podcast below: (00:00:00) Intro(00:01:25) Recapping the PLRF summer '25 webinar(00:19:17)...