COVID vaccines are significant products for drugmakers, even as uptake has fallen post-pandemic. In 2024, U.S. sales of COVID boosters - sold primarily by Pfizer and Moderna - topped $3.5 billion.

Sweeney's experience with long COVID is just one of the many stories from women who've continued to be impacted by the virus, even five years after the start of the pandemic.

Covid unfolded on screens for most Americans, and although the experience was in many ways collective, all our screens were different: Some showed overflowing morgues, others revealing a sham.

Today, we have begun to learn this lesson again, in the wake of the now five-year-old COVID pandemic. COVID is an acute, infectious disease caused, like the 1918 outbreak, by a virus.

The following is a special feature from CivicScience CEO and Founder John Dick. Learn how you can turn insights like these into actionable strategies here. In the years leading up to the pandemic, ...