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Key Takeaways
A Tsunami of disability.
It’s a sense of unease that could have lasting mental health consequences for all involved.
Its a conflict deeply felt by disability justice advocate Liza Mamedov.
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As well as doctors who completely invalidated many of my conditions of psychological or not deserving of research funding.
or it’s so much harder for us and they just come in.
For them, COVID appears to have just heightened those sensitivities.
They have decided instead to focus on the symptoms of COVID as a disabling force.
They’re asking for disability supports or accommodation.
There are biases, and, and we’re human, we’re not perfect.
Meanwhile, his waiting list keeps getting longer as more and more patients explore their relationship to disability.
This pandemic has really affected a lot of people that never had anypsychiatric illnessbefore because it affected everybody.
They’re asking for disability supports or accommodation.
Mamedov, like many politically active disabled people, feels the stakes are immeasurably high.
Pomeroy C.A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’.
Published July 6, 2021.
Center for American Progress.
Published February 9, 2022.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.EEOC Adds New Section Clarifying When COVID-19 May Be a Disability, Updating Technical Assistance.
Published December 14, 2021.
