The Sick Times: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability (USA)

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Article from The Sick Times:

Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability

(headline refers to the US government)
The Sick Times said:
Several government resources about accommodations for people with Long COVID have become unavailable in the last week, following purges of government websites and datasets under the Trump administration. These pages offered crucial information about rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for people with Long COVID and their employers.
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While this information may now be harder to access, people with Long COVID are still legally entitled to accommodations, disability advocates who spoke with The Sick Times emphasized. President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally repeal the ADA or other federal protections for disabled people.
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The Sick Times said:
Unlike Long COVID information, pages about other specific diseases and disabilities remain available on the AskJAN site. The site’s directory includes other infection-associated diseases, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and Lyme disease.

“It seems like Long COVID has been targeted,” Barnett said. Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, agreed that it appeared the Long COVID pages were specifically targeted within broader attacks to programs that support disabled people.
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