But for thousands of L.A. County residents living with the complex, chronic condition known as long COVID, the emergency has never ended. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.”Elle Seibert, 31, has been living with long COVID. “I know [long COVID] is new, but it’s not as new as it was. Last year, the Trump administration closed the Office for Long COVID Research and Practice and canceled grants for long COVID research. Yet new COVID infections are producing new long COVID patients.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 15, 2026 00:58 UTC