How ‘Long COVID’ Keeps Us Sick - Quanta

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  1. InitialConditions

    InitialConditions Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-covid-how-it-keeps-us-sick-20210701/

    "Understanding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population means knowing more than just the total number of infections and deaths. As with many diseases, after the acute infection has passed, a constellation of symptoms known as sequelae can still linger. And while the end of the pandemic is finally coming into view, we’re still in the early stages of comprehending post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, also referred to as “PASC” or “long COVID.”

    But COVID is far from the only infectious disease to result in long-term symptoms. Understanding this newly identified chronic illness and its associated symptoms could be guided by, and inform our knowledge of, other instances of post-infectious sequelae."

    I've not read this yet, but will do. I see there is mention of ME/CFS.
     
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    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    1st step: whatever was done, do the opposite. When you manage 100% failure, it's very easy to do better, just flip everything around. But for that the failure must be acknowledged, so if it does happen, it will have to be imposed from the outside. Because right now medicine is doing all the same failing at every turn.
     
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    Three Chord Monty Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Not terribly surprising coming from someone who published a blog (a guest post that wasn't actually that horrible, though there's plenty of scorn to be found in the comments) with the title...

    http://aetiologyblog.com/2010/04/26/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-a-leg/
     
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