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UCHealth Today: "People get help for a variety of confusing symptoms of long COVID" "This is an important area of study, with a focus on the possibility that long COVID symptoms again overlap with another condition, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Jolley said. Many...

Medical News Today: "What is 'long COVID' and how does it affect those who experience it?" "Extreme fatigue appears to be the common denominator between long haulers, which has led some specialists to compare or link the long COVID phenomenon with post-viral syndrome. The symptoms of this...

Moved from the long covid thread New Haven Register: Long COVID fatigue may not be a heart or lung problem, Yale doctors say "When cardiopulmonary tests don’t reveal a problem with the heart or lungs, “it’s not that they’re making things up,” said Dr. Inderjit Singh, a pulmonologist at Yale...

NorthJersey: "COVID could launch an epidemic of chronic fatigue syndrome, doctors warn" Some quotes: "Even as the latest COVID surge recedes, doctors and patient advocates warn that the virus could leave a new epidemic in its wake: millions more cases of the rare, mysterious condition known as...

Ah gotcha, my fault. For some reason I thought it was a little different...I think this time they edited in ME then, because at least as of Monday the NYT article only referred to ME/CFS as CFS or chronic fatigue. So there's that.

OICanadian: "The problems to do physical exercise that those who have long Covid are suffering" "The research I carried out shows that the difficulty of doing physical exercise is precisely one of the most common symptoms of Covid in the long term,” says Lambert. Some just don’t have the...

Scientific American: "COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses" "Medical science has increasingly understood that infections can trigger ongoing physical symptoms in a subset of people, yet the medical establishment has typically ignored the experiences of those people...

The Mercury News:What does COVID-19 do to your brain? "The strange neurological symptoms of Long COVID could also provide insights into other mysterious and poorly understood conditions, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis, more familiarly known as chronic fatigue syndrome." "Many of the...

No I did not.

Time: Long COVID Patients Are Waiting Months for Care, and the Problem May Only Get Worse "The problem is, nobody fully understands how to cure Long COVID. In that regard, it’s similar to other mysterious and complex chronic illnesses like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome...

(if not posted yet) The Guardian: The great gaslighting: how Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition Features Dr. Komaroff & a fair amount of ME/CFS excerpts.

Science News: "A faulty immune response may be behind lingering brain trouble after COVID-19" "It’s not a new idea. Immune systems gone awry have been implicated in cognitive problems that come with other viral infections such as HIV and influenza, with disorders such as myalgic...

SFGate: "Coronavirus cases are dropping. It's time to talk about long COVID" Features Dr. Mady Hornig. Excerpts: "Some people develop symptoms that look very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis. That kind of “post-viral syndrome” can develop after all...

New York holding virtual panel discussion on 'long COVID' "New York State will hold a virtual event Thursday featuring a panel of experts discussing how to identify and treat long-term COVID-19 symptoms, and how the state can implement policies to address 'long COVID.' Public health...

"Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley speaks with COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, January 28, 2022" Important conversation with Massachusetts Congresswoman Rep. Ayanna Pressley & Long COVID patient advocates. Dr. Lucinda Bateman speaks at 1 hour & 3 minutes.

Infection Control Today: Getting a Head Start on Treating Long COVID In depth interview with Jaime Seltzer from MEAction. "I think in order to overcome that inherent necessity to feel safe, people with long COVID and people with ME/CFS need to join hands and advocacy and fight together. And we...

The Nevada Independent: When will I get better from COVID-19? "Despite all we know about the insidious ways the SARS-Cov-2 virus affects the human body, some long-haulers have been met with disbelief and discrimination by employers, medical providers, and families. This makes little sense, as...

PolyBio Research Foundation: Considerations when developing LongCovid therapeutics w/Dr. VanElzakker 2:07: "The symptoms of ME/CFS really do overlap with Long COVID. This is the international consensus criteria of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and I'm not going to make you read through it, but...

Vox: What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer. "It’s not fully understood what these so-called “viral reservoirs” do in the body. Proal’s previous work on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome), an illness that has substantial similarity...

Federal News Network: Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes "Some scientists worry that long COVID in certain patients might become a form of chronic fatigue syndrome, a poorly understood, long-lasting condition that has no cure or approved treatment." "One thing’s for sure...