Will COVID-19 Lead to ME/CFS?, Komaroff and Bateman, 2021

[Andy]

“Recovering” from COVID-19 does not guarantee a return to a person’s usual state of health. For one thing, some people with multi-system injury—particularly to the brain, heart and kidneys—may develop permanent dysfunction of those organs.
In addition, a more subtle form of chronic illness may develop. For some people with COVID-19, even those who are mildly affected at first, the ensuing weeks and months of “recovery” bring a surprise and a betrayal: they do not return to full health. Although nucleic acid tests no longer detect the virus, people still suffer from ongoing symptoms. They call themselves “long haulers”, and the condition is being called “long COVID”.

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.606824/full

 

[ME/CFS Skeptic]

 

[boolybooly]

Which makes the case for detailed longitudinal studies of recovering COVID-19 patients.

IMHO the more empirical data and the more scientific scrutiny it is given, the better.

 

[Tom Kindlon]

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.606824/full

Formatted version is now up

 

[Snow Leopard]

I wish they published this article about a year ago...

 

[Jaybee00]

Better title would have been:


COVID-19 Will Lead to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.