Jessie Chaffee
@jessielchaffee.bsky.social
Author of Florence in Ecstasy. Living with and writing about #longcovid
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A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
I look forward to @memoirland.bsky.social’s Memoir Monday every week. Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including my @literaryhub.bsky.social essay about living with #longcovid in this week’s roundup! 🙏❤️
April 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I look forward to @memoirland.bsky.social’s Memoir Monday every week. Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including my @literaryhub.bsky.social essay about living with #longcovid in this week’s roundup! 🙏❤️
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After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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Word Games
Diane Mehta on learning the frantic art of scrambling for words from her speedy and strategic 21-year-old son.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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April 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org
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Just doing my part to introduce the term "cooker" to the rest of the world:
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#Covid #LongCovid #Vaccines #StillCoviding
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#Covid #LongCovid #Vaccines #StillCoviding
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April 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just doing my part to introduce the term "cooker" to the rest of the world:
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#Covid #LongCovid #Vaccines #StillCoviding
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#Covid #LongCovid #Vaccines #StillCoviding
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WSJ: 'The NIH Is Our Crown Jewel. Don’t Shatter It'
'Nowhere else on the planet offers anything close to our opportunities for medical innovation'
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'Nowhere else on the planet offers anything close to our opportunities for medical innovation'
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Opinion | The NIH Is Our Crown Jewel. Don’t Shatter It
Nowhere else on the planet offers anything close to our opportunities for medical innovation.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
WSJ: 'The NIH Is Our Crown Jewel. Don’t Shatter It'
'Nowhere else on the planet offers anything close to our opportunities for medical innovation'
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
'Nowhere else on the planet offers anything close to our opportunities for medical innovation'
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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The Sick Times: 'Lisa McCorkell reflects on five years of Long COVID research, and leaving PLRC'
H/T @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @lisamccorkell.bsky.social
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H/T @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @lisamccorkell.bsky.social
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Lisa McCorkell reflects on five years of Long COVID research, and leaving PLRC - The Sick Times
Lisa McCorkell, one of the founders of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative (or PLRC), recently stepped down after five years co-leading the organization. The Sick Times co-founder and managing edit...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Sick Times: 'Lisa McCorkell reflects on five years of Long COVID research, and leaving PLRC'
H/T @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @lisamccorkell.bsky.social
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H/T @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @lisamccorkell.bsky.social
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Long COVID and viral reactivation are linked. Our latest trial focuses on repurposing existing, broad spectrum antivirals to reduce symptoms in adults with #LongCOVID. Our clinical trial is currently recruiting! Email CoreResearch@mountsinai.org to inquire
April 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Long COVID and viral reactivation are linked. Our latest trial focuses on repurposing existing, broad spectrum antivirals to reduce symptoms in adults with #LongCOVID. Our clinical trial is currently recruiting! Email CoreResearch@mountsinai.org to inquire
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“Being immunocompromised, I need to avoid getting infected again with COVID or anything else, so wearing a face mask is essential.”— Behind the BreatheTeq KN95 is Katie Holten holding a sign that says, “STOP the COUP” supporting
#MaskTogetherAmerica
#Handsoff Public Health!
#MaskTogetherAmerica
#Handsoff Public Health!
April 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Being immunocompromised, I need to avoid getting infected again with COVID or anything else, so wearing a face mask is essential.”— Behind the BreatheTeq KN95 is Katie Holten holding a sign that says, “STOP the COUP” supporting
#MaskTogetherAmerica
#Handsoff Public Health!
#MaskTogetherAmerica
#Handsoff Public Health!
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Jessie Chaffee on Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and living in the shadow of long COVID.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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April 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Jessie Chaffee on Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and living in the shadow of long COVID.
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Powerful, gorgeous, hard read that is also a little about Stonewall and ends up being a lot about resisting erasure. The Women's House of Detention seems like a pretty important thing to remember right now.
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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April 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Powerful, gorgeous, hard read that is also a little about Stonewall and ends up being a lot about resisting erasure. The Women's House of Detention seems like a pretty important thing to remember right now.
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"I subsist on teaspoons of life”
#LongCovid essay by @jessielosch.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social with shout-outs to @patientled.bsky.social & #LongCovidMoonshot!
(also featuring one of my favorite public libraries in niu yor 💜)
#LongCovid essay by @jessielosch.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social with shout-outs to @patientled.bsky.social & #LongCovidMoonshot!
(also featuring one of my favorite public libraries in niu yor 💜)
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"I subsist on teaspoons of life”
#LongCovid essay by @jessielosch.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social with shout-outs to @patientled.bsky.social & #LongCovidMoonshot!
(also featuring one of my favorite public libraries in niu yor 💜)
#LongCovid essay by @jessielosch.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social with shout-outs to @patientled.bsky.social & #LongCovidMoonshot!
(also featuring one of my favorite public libraries in niu yor 💜)
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An international emergency task force is urgently needed for Severe Long COVID and ME crisis cases. Severe advocates are putting themselves at risk. It’s time for advocacy organizations to step up. bit.ly/42fSrue
April 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An international emergency task force is urgently needed for Severe Long COVID and ME crisis cases. Severe advocates are putting themselves at risk. It’s time for advocacy organizations to step up. bit.ly/42fSrue
Wishing I could be at today's #HandsOff2025 rally in person, but #longcovid is keeping me home. But I WILL be attending these virtual protests. Additional virtual opportunities in 🧵 #chronicillness #disability
Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back · Hands Off
🚨 Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back! 🚨
They're grabbing everything they can—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to...
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April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wishing I could be at today's #HandsOff2025 rally in person, but #longcovid is keeping me home. But I WILL be attending these virtual protests. Additional virtual opportunities in 🧵 #chronicillness #disability
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Literary Hub: 'A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID'
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel...."
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Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel...."
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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April 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Literary Hub: 'A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID'
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel...."
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel...."
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
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Deze komt vandaag heel hard bij me binnen. Wat een mooi literair essay over leven met long covid, de impact ervan op je dagelijks leven, en het gevecht om erkenning.
Ik ben iets minder ziek dan de schrijfster - ik kan oa een paar keer per week de deur uit en ong 4 uur p/d licht actief zijn. Maar..
Ik ben iets minder ziek dan de schrijfster - ik kan oa een paar keer per week de deur uit en ong 4 uur p/d licht actief zijn. Maar..
A moving piece:
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Deze komt vandaag heel hard bij me binnen. Wat een mooi literair essay over leven met long covid, de impact ervan op je dagelijks leven, en het gevecht om erkenning.
Ik ben iets minder ziek dan de schrijfster - ik kan oa een paar keer per week de deur uit en ong 4 uur p/d licht actief zijn. Maar..
Ik ben iets minder ziek dan de schrijfster - ik kan oa een paar keer per week de deur uit en ong 4 uur p/d licht actief zijn. Maar..
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“Because there are people resisting erasure.”
“And resisting erasure will become both more difficult and more necessary.”
“And resisting erasure will become both more difficult and more necessary.”
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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April 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Because there are people resisting erasure.”
“And resisting erasure will become both more difficult and more necessary.”
“And resisting erasure will become both more difficult and more necessary.”
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📒A must read by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social
Haunting, vivid & poignant.
It weaves in the:
☀️ symbolism of Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'
📚 the setting of Greenwich Village & the prison turned library
✊ activism
🕳️ the quiet violence of absence we experience from #LongCovid
Haunting, vivid & poignant.
It weaves in the:
☀️ symbolism of Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'
📚 the setting of Greenwich Village & the prison turned library
✊ activism
🕳️ the quiet violence of absence we experience from #LongCovid
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📒A must read by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social
Haunting, vivid & poignant.
It weaves in the:
☀️ symbolism of Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'
📚 the setting of Greenwich Village & the prison turned library
✊ activism
🕳️ the quiet violence of absence we experience from #LongCovid
Haunting, vivid & poignant.
It weaves in the:
☀️ symbolism of Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'
📚 the setting of Greenwich Village & the prison turned library
✊ activism
🕳️ the quiet violence of absence we experience from #LongCovid
Reposted by Jessie Chaffee
A moving piece:
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
A moving piece:
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
“I feel the full weight of this missed day, how it sits upon all the other missings of these years with #LongCovid - Christmas with family…beach with my son…parties, concerts, time with friends, writing, reading, traveling, imagining… things I did when I wasn’t trapped in this body”
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Thank you, Jessie, for helping to make visible the millions who suffer from long covid #longcovidawareness
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thank you, Jessie, for helping to make visible the millions who suffer from long covid #longcovidawareness
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very grateful to have my essay about living with #longcovid, and the many missings it has wrought, up on @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Reposted by Jessie Chaffee
“There are people resisting erasure. There are people challenging the ‘post-pandemic’ story, in which COVID is a historical blip rather than an ongoing and devastating narrative.” Stunning essay by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social lithub.com/a-single-ray...
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“There are people resisting erasure. There are people challenging the ‘post-pandemic’ story, in which COVID is a historical blip rather than an ongoing and devastating narrative.” Stunning essay by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social lithub.com/a-single-ray...
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I love this story by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social for lots of reasons, not just because we share the same beautiful library and the shadow of Long COVID. Please read it! Grateful we have spaces like @literaryhub.bsky.social that share powerful stories like this.
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
lithub.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I love this story by @jessielchaffee.bsky.social for lots of reasons, not just because we share the same beautiful library and the shadow of Long COVID. Please read it! Grateful we have spaces like @literaryhub.bsky.social that share powerful stories like this.
lithub.com/a-single-ray...
lithub.com/a-single-ray...