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Stuff science columnist Dr Siouxsie Wiles writes: Stuff Here comes the long-Covid tsunami Quote: May 12 is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the English statistician and social reformer credited with founding modern nursing. While you might remember Nightingale as the...

Should this thread also include press coverage and other media attention for the Awareness Month, or should we make a separate thread for that? Just saw a great one from New Zealand I'd like to share :-)

Meanwhile in Spain where long Covid was focus of a recent discussion at an International Congress of the Spanish Society of Precision Health: Medscape COVID-19 Infection Has More Than 50 Long-Term Effects "Unfortunately, we are not taught or used to prescribing exercise. Based on all this...

From the News Medical article prof. Awasaki links to: SARS-CoV-2 variants are not evolving to escape from T cell-mediated immunity Conclusions Presumably, SARS-CoV-2, like many other viruses, has developed ways to avoid the efficient MHC-I mediated antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells, as...

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Prof. Iwasaki has provided a summary on Twitter:

SARS-CoV-2 variants do not evolve to promote further escape from MHC-l recognition Summary SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) possess mutations that confer resistance to neutralizing antibodies within the Spike protein and are associated with breakthrough infection and reinfection. By...

What is a "poster presentation" in this setting?

Perhaps not very long..

Did you see part 2 where she writes about high intensity training and says that not everyone with ME/CFS have PEM? https://doctorbthept.com/2022/04/19/treating-long-covid-part-2/

Ed Yong recently had a lecture at Yale Law School titled: Ed Yong: Normal Led to This: On Two Years of Covering The Pandemic It's now available. He gives as expected a great talk covering main topics of the pandemic and in particular how USA has delt with it. Long Covid is not a big part of the...

Spotted the paper on twitter in this tweet from Dr Asad Khan who comments: Quoting Dr Nina Muirhead: patients with #MECFS in this paper have avg 14 years of being ill and a massive negative impact on QoL of #pwME & family members -that would be another million people if they don’t solve...

Full title: Impact of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome /ME/CFS) on the quality of life of people with ME/CFS and their partners and family members: an online cross-sectional survey Jui Vyas, Nina Muirhead et al Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the impact...

It's an article about the research project "Tjenesten og MEg" who says ME patients aren't taken seriously by those who are supposed to help them and that lack of knowledge results into "help" that only makes matters worse. Research director at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health Signe...

Here's one example. You have to click on the arrow on the picture to get to the English version.

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Just wanted to recommend this Instagram profile with excellent and professionally made illustrations in both Norwegian and English versions. Description of profile: Illustrating the debate, science and politics about ME to raise awareness. https://www.instagram.com/illustrating_me/

Just watched the whole video. Great interview and nice to get to know David Tuller even more. He provides solid information as always on ME, and explains well the key aspects in this complex saga. Very gripping to hear about the AIDS epidemic and its unfathomable consequences for those caught...

David Tuller on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis on Tub Talks With Damon Description: David Tuller is an Award Winning Journalist, Professor, Activist. He was one of the first writers to discuss PrEP in mainstream press, and now he is advocating for the rights of those...

Full title: Long-COVID post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome and affective symptoms are associated with oxidative damage, lowered antioxidant defences and inflammations: a proof of concept and mechanism study. Al-Hakeim et al Abstract The immune-inflammatory response during the acute phase of...