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  1. mango

    Advice on mask-wearing to protect against Covid-19

    Meanwhile in Sweden, the public health agency is still not recommending face masks (except on public transport during rush hour), despite tightening several other recommendations today. No talk about airborne transmission at the press conference today either. The main focus is still on droplets...
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    News from Scandinavia

    The Swedish morning tv-show Malou Efter Tio has posted a video compilation of their "2021 favourites". (I haven't watched it.) Malous löfte till nästa säsong: ”Vi kommer fortsätta bevaka ME”...
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    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    According to social media posts by ME-patients at Bragée ME-center in Sweden, Bragée are asking all their current ME-patients to fill out a questionnaire about whether they have had covid-19 or if they are vaccinated, and their reactions. The aim stated in the invitation is to use this...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Editorial in a Swedish newspaper, written by a doctor, based on an infamous lecture by psychiatrist Åsa Kadowaki (who has long covid). Kajsa Dovstad: Tänk om terapi är bästa medicinen vid postcovid https://www.gp.se/ledare/tänk-om-terapi-är-bästa-medicinen-vid-postcovid-1.61482362 Google...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Yet another opinion piece on long covid as a cultural illness, by Swedish journalist Hanne Kjöller :grumpy: Now with added smear against the postcovid specialist clinic in Solna and the Swedish Covid Association and its chairperson, as well as a rerun of the old comparisons to dental amalgam...
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    News from Scandinavia

    ME on Swedish TV this morning (video, 2 minutes, in Swedish). Not bad :) About the new ME clinic in Umeå, Västerbotten. Stresses that the Region (the local government that is responsible for healthcare) takes ME seriously. Jonas Bergquist is featured, talks very briefly about their research...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Another opinion piece on long covid as a cultural illness by Swedish journalist Hanne Kjöller :grumpy: Postcovid: samma symtom i ny förpackning https://kvartal.se/artiklar/langtidscovid/ Google Translate, English ("Postcovid: same symptoms in new packaging")
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    As far as I know, this ad (video, 15 seconds, in Swedish), published 2 weeks ago, is the very first time the Public Health Agency of Sweden mentions "risk of long-term symptoms after infection", in any of their public communications about the whys of covid-19 vaccinations and other infection...
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/KVA) published a report on covid-19 last week. English: Academy report proposes an independent expert unit for pandemics Swedish: Vad kan vi lära av pandemin? Kunskapsöversikter från Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens expertgrupp om...
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    UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion

    Could they maybe have been encouraged by the same English BBC journalist/reporter/? who has recently been contacting Swedish ME doctors/researchers and ME deniers, apparently asking around about the controversies and the horror stories?
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    News from Scandinavia

    Opinion piece in the journal of the Swedish Medical Association, written by Sten Helmfrid and the chairperson and the vice-chairperson of RME (the Swedish ME Association). Låt NICE:s nya riktlinjer bli en vändpunkt för ME/CFS...
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    News from Scandinavia

    Björn Bragée on Facebook 5 days ago: https://www.facebook.com/argadoktorn/posts/6811272625579360
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    News from Scandinavia

    (Not a recommendation.) Video on the nature of chronic pain by Britt Bragée, co-founder of Bragée Clinics. (5 minutes, in Swedish) "Today we know for sure that pain is related to past experiences [...]" Spoiler: It's not an injury, it's the brain protecting us from danger... But the fact...
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    David Tuller interviews Adam Lowe about his experience as a lay member of the NICE ME/CFS guideline committee

    Thank you so much! Really really lovely photo :) Just loving seeing people happy, enjoying themselves and life -- especially nowadays..! Thank you for sharing this with us :) Wishing you both infinite happiness :heart:
  15. mango

    David Tuller interviews Adam Lowe about his experience as a lay member of the NICE ME/CFS guideline committee

    Congratulations, Adam :hug::heart: The image is not showing up for me? No error message, just an empty IMG tag.
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    News from Scandinavia

    Are they at Huddinge? Huddinge post covid clinic has at least two physicians with a biomedical perspective, good understanding of PEM, and lots of experience from having worked at Stora Sköndal ME clinic: dr Per Julin and dr Anders Rehnström. I don't know anything about their views or...
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    News from Scandinavia

    :hug::heart: (I noticed that ME specialist dr Per Julin has signed the opinion piece by "20 employees at the Huddinge long covid clinic" linked above, so it seems to confirm the rumours that he's working there now?)
  18. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    @Amw66 Here's another Swedish BPS article on long covid, also by David Gyll (I believe he's currently the head of the long covid clinic in Uppsala?), if you want to have a look at what kind of BPS info your relatives are potentially being fed? Published in a journal/magazine for GPs. Postcovid...
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