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Scientific American: "COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses" "Medical science has increasingly understood that infections can trigger ongoing physical symptoms in a subset of people, yet the medical establishment has typically ignored the experiences of those people...

The Mercury News:What does COVID-19 do to your brain? "The strange neurological symptoms of Long COVID could also provide insights into other mysterious and poorly understood conditions, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis, more familiarly known as chronic fatigue syndrome." "Many of the...

No I did not.

Time: Long COVID Patients Are Waiting Months for Care, and the Problem May Only Get Worse "The problem is, nobody fully understands how to cure Long COVID. In that regard, it’s similar to other mysterious and complex chronic illnesses like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome...

(if not posted yet) The Guardian: The great gaslighting: how Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition Features Dr. Komaroff & a fair amount of ME/CFS excerpts.

Science News: "A faulty immune response may be behind lingering brain trouble after COVID-19" "It’s not a new idea. Immune systems gone awry have been implicated in cognitive problems that come with other viral infections such as HIV and influenza, with disorders such as myalgic...

SFGate: "Coronavirus cases are dropping. It's time to talk about long COVID" Features Dr. Mady Hornig. Excerpts: "Some people develop symptoms that look very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis. That kind of “post-viral syndrome” can develop after all...

New York holding virtual panel discussion on 'long COVID' "New York State will hold a virtual event Thursday featuring a panel of experts discussing how to identify and treat long-term COVID-19 symptoms, and how the state can implement policies to address 'long COVID.' Public health...

"Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley speaks with COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, January 28, 2022" Important conversation with Massachusetts Congresswoman Rep. Ayanna Pressley & Long COVID patient advocates. Dr. Lucinda Bateman speaks at 1 hour & 3 minutes.

Infection Control Today: Getting a Head Start on Treating Long COVID In depth interview with Jaime Seltzer from MEAction. "I think in order to overcome that inherent necessity to feel safe, people with long COVID and people with ME/CFS need to join hands and advocacy and fight together. And we...

The Nevada Independent: When will I get better from COVID-19? "Despite all we know about the insidious ways the SARS-Cov-2 virus affects the human body, some long-haulers have been met with disbelief and discrimination by employers, medical providers, and families. This makes little sense, as...

PolyBio Research Foundation: Considerations when developing LongCovid therapeutics w/Dr. VanElzakker 2:07: "The symptoms of ME/CFS really do overlap with Long COVID. This is the international consensus criteria of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and I'm not going to make you read through it, but...

Vox: What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer. "It’s not fully understood what these so-called “viral reservoirs” do in the body. Proal’s previous work on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome), an illness that has substantial similarity...

Federal News Network: Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes "Some scientists worry that long COVID in certain patients might become a form of chronic fatigue syndrome, a poorly understood, long-lasting condition that has no cure or approved treatment." "One thing’s for sure...

Infection Control Today: Long COVID Shouldn’t Have Taken Us by Surprise Some quick excerpts: "Long COVID’s symptoms seem to match those of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a condition that millions have suffered from for decades." "Long COVID isn’t an anomaly. In...

Dr. Michael Osterholm: Episode 88: Vaccines, Variants, and Long COVID. 56-minute mark: “This not a new phenomenon. We have previously documented chronic implications for infections like Epstein-Barr virus & others that may cause the same picture and surely has some ties to the work we’ve been...

(also not sure if posted) NYT: "New Research Hints at 4 Factors That May Increase Chances of Long Covid" Paywall work-around: https://archive.fo/fkYXd "That some patients had reactivated Epstein-Barr virus also made sense, Dr. Nath said, because other diseases have reawakened that virus, and...

Moved post If this is already posted, please remove. News Medical: "Study explores individuals’ experiences with long COVID" “The main theme of the responses was the feeling of being out of harmony with society, workplace culture, family life, and personal identity. The participants described...

Washington Post: CDC is asked to release race and gender data on long covid “People suffering from Long covid have been ignored and overlooked for far too long. Collecting and publishing robust, disaggregated demographic data will help us better understand this illness and ensure that we are...

UCSF Magazine: The Long Haul "An all-hands-on-deck research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone." "The sudden scientific interest in viruses due to the pandemic could also shed light on other illnesses...