Simon M
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
not really. Most researchers believe that long co-is likely to be many different things. This still isn't the research to demonstrate that ANY of it is definitely ME/CFS, though it certainly looks that way (decodeme will be looking at the genetics of people who meet ME criteria after Covid infection). The key number is the 233,000 people who say they are "limited a lot" by Long Covid — only those are likely to meet ME/CFS criteria and only a subset of those are likely to have ME/CFS.Assuming there were some 250,000 people with ME at the start of 2020, is it likely that this figure will reach 1,000,000 before the end of 2022? Is this likely to be replicated world wide, or will countries that are not relying on a herd immunity strategy fare better?
All the same, we could be looking at a very big increase in ME.