LarsSG
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
It's clear that recovery from ME/CFS is rare. The most common course seems to be onset between ages 10 and 40, lifelong illness, then death not directly related to ME.
I wouldn't agree that recovery is rare. I think that's heavily influenced by sampling bias (easy for us to think of lots of people who have had ME for a long time, not so much people who were sick for a year or three and then got better, perhaps not ever really knowing what they had). I think we've seen with LC as well that a significant portion of people do recover.
But leaving that aside, the CDC survey data here shows a 33% drop in ME/CFS prevalence from the 60-69 age group (2.1%) to the 70+ age group (1.4%). That's not really compatible with a model where recovery rates are low and all the people in this survey who answered yes do in fact have ME/CFS, so one of those two conditions must be false to some degree.