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The Swedish news site on medicine "Dagens Medicin" writes today that long-term illness with covid symptoms now will be registered. Many people who are ill long term with covid-19 symptoms say that they have been denied care and met with disbelief. Now the National Board of Health and Welfare...

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This was excellent. Paul Garner talks about post covid for half an hour. He tells his story, describes a fluctuation of symptoms, brain fog. That doing too much results into "an echo of the original infection". He goes on to say: It's actually quite complicated to negotiate this viral...

Tweets from Miranda Hart today about ME:

BBC: Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long? But more likely, these long-haulers are experiencing a prolonged and exaggerated immune response to the original infection, on top of the damage caused to their lungs and other organs. Our challenge as doctors and...

Endorsed by another Norwegian psychologist. What's happening??

When patients were assessed a mean of 60 days after onset of the first covid-19 symptoms, only 18 (12.6%) were completely free of any covid-19 related symptom, while 32% had one or two symptoms, and 55% had three or more. None of the patients had fever or any signs or symptoms of acute illness...

CNN: Oregon woman has battled coronavirus symptoms since March "There may well be a post-viral syndrome associated with Covid-19," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a news conference organized by the International AIDS Society. The group is...

Yes, I think what you're saying here is an important aspect. This is a bit off-thread but it was quite emotional to learn about my great grandmother who suffered from tuberculosis. She lived in a room in the attic to some relatives. They took care of her, but were of course scared of becoming...

NewStatesman - Phil Whitaker: For some sufferers, Covid-19 doesn't come with an end-by date - it just goes on and on As for #LongCovid sufferers like Xanthe and Paulo, it feels, intuitively, as though their immune response is at stalemate: neither clearing the virus nor being driven down the...

Hard to say if there could have been some ME patients among here, but interesting interview from University of Colorado with history professor Susan Kingsley Kent from April this year. Lessons from the 1918/1919 Influenza Pandemic SKK: The flu left survivors with a variety of mental symptoms...

Interesting question. Could it have coincided with an increase of people diagnosed with "neurasthenia"? A quick google search resulted into this article from May this year in Psychiatric Times The Spanish Flu Pandemic and Mental Health: A Historical Perspective In comparison to other aspects...

Question asked: Department of Health and Social Care 70531 To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NICE guidance on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis will be updated to remove graded exercise in response to the increasing numbers of patients with...

Good idea! I'll copy it

Retraction Watch: 77-year-old paper by controversial psychiatrist Hans Eysenck earn an expression of concern Suspicions about Eysenck, who died in 1997, surfaced in the early 1990s, if not before. At least 14 of his papers have been retracted so far — a total his biographer has said could well...

Question asked: Department of Health and Social Care 70531 To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NICE guidance on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis will be updated to remove graded exercise in response to the increasing numbers of patients with...

Oh dear :(