What is evidence re: long-COVID; incl. specifically on the management of patients who have PVFS due to COVID-19? (website of the Irish health service)

[Dolphin]

I came across this from the website of the HSE, the equivalent of the NHS in the Republic of Ireland:

"What is the latest evidence about the existence of long-COVID or post-COVID and its persistence for COVID-19 survivors? What evidence is currently available on the management of patients who have post viral fatigue syndrome due to COVID-19?"

https://hselibrary.ie/what-is-the-l...-on-the-management-of-patients-who-have-post/

It looks like it has some biopsychosocial info in it, but I wasn't sure whether it should go in that thread or not.

 

[rvallee]

It's.... meh. But the good kind of meh, where it's mostly "we don't know much but here's what people are saying", some of it of possible usefulness, most of it a confused mess. Which is mostly where we are.

It clearly misunderstands ME as fatigue, though. But this is what the scientific literature mostly obsesses over so this meh is sadly a reflection of just how meh medicine has a handle on the issue so far. That's the best grade medicine can muster so far, a resounding, flat meh.

And since I'm on a roll with this: meh.