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# Just because some people can pretend COVID is over, doesn’t mean it actually is
- URL: https://werd.io/just-because-some-people-can-pretend-covid-is-over-doesnt/
- Published: 2022-08-07T18:04:55.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-07T18:04:55.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Covid, #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“People are still dying of COVID and even more people are getting long COVID (which we’re seeing develop into myalgic encephalomyelitis for many long haulers, and trust me, you don’t want it). The CDC and Food and Drug Administration have mostly abdicated their responsibility to prevent infections, focusing only on serious illness and death, while ignoring long COVID and the impact of the virus on disabled people.” [#Covid](https://werd.io/tag/Covid)

\[[Link](https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/COVID-coronavirus-pandemic-17355893.php)\]