Long Covid Lives

I was commissioned by Positve Negatives to collaborate on Long Covid Lives, a three-part graphic series which explores the lived experiences of young people living with Long Covid.

Long Covid Lives has been produced from research undertaken by the Covid Made Long Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in partnership with Imperial College London, Long Covid Kids, and Long Covid Support. 

It is based on a research project where young people were interviewed about their experiences of living with Long Covid, which identified that they can struggle to access care and support as well as to have their voices heard.

You can read the full comics here: Positive Negatives - Long Covid Lives

• Part One explores the difficulties of young people in both experiencing a range of ongoing symptoms, in being believed and in accessing care and support.

• Part Two explores the multiple, varying impacts of Long Covid and the pandemic on young people’s lives, and how the care available is often fragmented, and failing to see young people’s illness experience as a whole.

• Part Three explores how, despite the challenges of chronic illness, young people adapt and remake their worlds in order to live with Long Covid. 

You can find out more about the project here: Covid Made Long