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What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19? Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to treat them. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/magazine/covid-aftereffects.html

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/2/106/htm

Article about the above study Possibility of 'long Covid' could be established in patients soon after they are infected New research suggests why some people experience longer-lasting symptoms of the virus...

A PhD opportunity Medical Sciences & Translational Research PhD: ME/CFS & Long Covid: Genetics, Truth and Reconciliation University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Prof C Ponting , Dr S Cunningham-burley...

Covid: 'Convalescent plasma no benefit to hospital patients' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55681051

Long-COVID Cases Rise as Stigma of Chronic Fatigue Taunts You have to be registered with Medscape to read the article. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/943886

Doctors suffering from long Covid believe official treatment is misguided Jerome Burne https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2021/01/14/news/doctors-suffering-from-long-covid-believe-official-treatment-is-misguided-2180921/

Rapid Response from Patient Advocate Ian Stirling https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.m4721/rr more at link. Edited to shorten quoted section and add direct link.

What! How could the bps model be even more scientific? Impossible surely?

Full title: Salivary DNA loads for human herpes viruses 6 and 7 are correlated with disease phenotype in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.20248486v1

For Many COVID-19 Survivors, Another Devastating Syndrome May Follow Myalgic encephalomyelitis, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is on the rise https://www.nextavenue.org/for-many-covid-19-survivors-another-devastating-syndrome-may-follow/

It is helping but we only have a window of opportunity. People are fearful of catching the virus now but once the danger has passed they will look at long covid patients the way they looked at ME/CFS patients, people who are not as strong as them and just need to pull themselves together.

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/company-news/aim-doses-first-patient/

https://www.mdpi.com/1010-660X/57/1/43/htm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9112353/Long-Covid-patients-told-exercise-despite-crippling-fatigue.html

Full title: “it’s a medical condition … you need to support as much as possible”: a qualitative analysis of teachers’ experiences of chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-020-02461-7 ETA link to article

COVID-19 and chronic fatigue syndrome: Is the worst yet to come? Peter Wostyn https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720333600?dgcid=rss_sd_all From the same author...

A scientist proved chronic fatigue syndrome is real — after his son was devastated by it https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/how-a-scientist-finally-proved-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-real/

Opinion Coronavirus America's healthcare system will struggle to deal with Covid 'long-haulers' Jennifer Lutz and Richard Carmona The US already has sky-high rates of chronic illness. Now comes a wave of Covid patients who never seem to fully recover My bolding...

Full title: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Organic Disease or Psychosomatic Illness? A Re-Examination of the Royal Free Epidemic of 1955 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33375343/