Philip Finkelstein

Philip Finkelstein is a freelance journalist and writer based in New York City and London. He has traveled the world reporting on a variety of topics from climate change to the pandemic to democracy. Building on his investigative reporting on long COVID and the dynamics of mass-disabling events, he is currently researching slow-onset health risks, along with other international relations topics, at the London of School Economics and Political Science while his debut speculative fiction novel on American cultural polarization and geopolitical tensions with Russia and China is prepared for publication. 

Leticia de Souza Soares, who suffers from pain and health problems caused by long COVID-19, stands on the balcony of her home, in Salvador, Brazil, on December 8, 2023.
Governance

From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness

by Emily Mendenhall, Philip Finkelstein

Despite centuries of examples, long-term maladies after flu and other viruses remain absent from mainstream policy