Excellent survey of the misrepresentations in mass media and of some of the truth about Long Covid/PASC, rich with links.
"In the last year alone, new studies have indicated that: 1) the prevalence of Long Covid may be much higher than assumed; 2) Long Covid is costing the world’s economy billions; and 3) some autoimmune symptoms of Long Covid can be transferred from humans into mice via autoantibodies.
"You won’t find many articles about these studies and breakthroughs in national corporate media. Instead, you will find lengthy articles arguing that Long Covid is a psychological condition—that mass psychogenesis is a better explanation for millions of newly chronically sick people (and animals) than the Covid virus."
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"National corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid, instead of investigating the actual nuanced debates in that field, like whether viral persistence drives symptoms. These media have given credibility to writers eager to entertain the supposed controversy, while marginalizing writers who start from the premise, widely shared among actual researchers, that Long Covid is a medical disease.
"There is a similar trend in the media when it comes to trans issues, as FAIR (12/1/25) previously reported. The media consider sources to be “neutral” when they aren’t “deeply involved in the issue,” which excludes both medical experts and people actually receiving gender-affirming care."
#LongCovid
https://fair.org/home/media-wont-stop-psychologizing-long-covid/
"In the last year alone, new studies have indicated that: 1) the prevalence of Long Covid may be much higher than assumed; 2) Long Covid is costing the world’s economy billions; and 3) some autoimmune symptoms of Long Covid can be transferred from humans into mice via autoantibodies.
"You won’t find many articles about these studies and breakthroughs in national corporate media. Instead, you will find lengthy articles arguing that Long Covid is a psychological condition—that mass psychogenesis is a better explanation for millions of newly chronically sick people (and animals) than the Covid virus."
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"National corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid, instead of investigating the actual nuanced debates in that field, like whether viral persistence drives symptoms. These media have given credibility to writers eager to entertain the supposed controversy, while marginalizing writers who start from the premise, widely shared among actual researchers, that Long Covid is a medical disease.
"There is a similar trend in the media when it comes to trans issues, as FAIR (12/1/25) previously reported. The media consider sources to be “neutral” when they aren’t “deeply involved in the issue,” which excludes both medical experts and people actually receiving gender-affirming care."
#LongCovid
https://fair.org/home/media-wont-stop-psychologizing-long-covid/