There has been some coverage in Germany. But mostly the same loyal journalists who have written in the last year(s).
Newspaper
https://m.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/chronisches-fatigue-syndrom-100-000-erkrankte-mehr-aufgrund-von-covid-19/27180710.html...
Oh no. It’s even worse. It is more authors. Look who is here:
Per Olav Vandvik, Elie A. Akl, Sue Brennan, Philipp Dahm, Marina Davoli, Signe Agnes Flottorp, Paul Garner, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Reem Mustafa, Maria X. Rojes, Gordon H. Guyatt
McMaster University
1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, Canada...
Maybe pointing to these two studies might help:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21249256v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248802v2
The first one is done by Germanys leading ME researcher Prof. Scheibenbogen. She works at the Charité, Germanys most...
It is like watching the last 50 years of ME/CFS in time lapse.
As you always say: The same mistakes are made again.
In a perverse sense it is really fascinating how a profession, or a lot of its members, just doesn't want to learn anything.
There seem to be rules in PVF and ME/CFS recovery. Please correct me if I am wrong, when I am struck by sudden remission I want to do everything right:
Rule 1:
If you get into remission, you have to right a book, or a big blog post at least. The bigger and more public the better.
Rule 2:
You...
Also Prof Garner didn't "end up" being a public advocate. He chose to be one by writing three or more ramblings about his state in the blog of a medical journal.
It is great that he wanted to point out that there are a lot of people with "long covid". But he could have done this as well without...
Interesting, I had the same kind of onset. It felt like the infection was about to start. It was intense for about 3 days. And afterwards I just felt sick. Most of the time I feel the worst just after waking up. A lot of the times I think 'oh no, I am going to be really sick' untill I am awake...
Trish is right. This is 99% PR for the book. It hasn't got anything to do with research.
Nevertheless it's great work placing it in big media outlets just before book launch. Also: Every good story about ME is a win for us.
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