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Just got some routine blood test results so I've added my vote (for 1-2). Previous tests 3 months into Long Covid: CRP was 2, eosinophils high, plasma viscosity high, everything else tested was within normal ranges. Recent tests 3 years into Long Covid: CRP is 1, eosinophils still high, plasma...

Possible in my case, I suppose, but I certainly wasn't aware of anything. (The only thing I can think of, looking back, is that I had seen the GP a few months pre-Covid infection about some pain I was having around the area of one kidney, but tests showed nothing to worry about, they said it was...

Kind of thing you'd get if you asked a chatbot to generate a paper and then to translate it into English, perhaps. The corresponding author's details are:

But you'd still have to account for the people who don't fit this pattern, who were in good health and busily active before Covid but then develop disabling Long Covid.

At least, in that cohort, the finding that “Despite ongoing shortness of breath and/or fatigue, affected individuals took as many steps as they did before infection” is yet another nail to bang into the coffin of the BPS "fear of activity"/deconditioning model.

17 March 2025 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62kdwll0xlo

I do hope the government spokesperson was simply asked for a generic comment on a Long Covid story. If they were asked to comment specifically on a story about someone who is bedbound and too sick even to see their children, and responded by saying that people like this should be in work, it...

Doctors' unions wanted the public to support them when they went on strike, citing patient safety. It would be nice to think that they might speak out in return now.

They are in the land of pure imagination here, pure fantasy.

Where do you even start addressing this hogwash.

Ref 16 is https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/abs/effect-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-on-the-hearing-system/17853CF0327CD3181FF8A8121C8CB75C Ref 17 is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196070922000552?via%3Dihub Ref 53 is...

Absolutely - and also that if someone is experiencing a significant loss of cognitive function compared to how they were before getting ill, it's meaningless to tell them that they are 'objectively' unimpaired because their results are now 'average'.

Though they also say:

Absolutely, I'm quite sure there will be useful info and it's a good idea to collect it! Just a note of caution about what we think of as 'normal'. (having originally posted my earlier comment in the thread about 'normal effects of exertion'.)

From that Guardian article:

When the psychologisers say you're imagining that you have Long Covid because you were traumatised by lockdown, and you explain that you weren't, they do a 180-degree turn and say aha: you loved lockdown and you were traumatised by the idea of returning to normality! There's always a...

We do need to be a bit careful about how much the conclusions from studies on young male athletes in sports science departments can be applied to the population in general.

Important point, and it's something the 'fatigue clinics' don't get at all when they tell people to do 'activity planners' - you can't just allocate a certain amount of effort to a particular activity, because it will take more out of you when you've been overstretched in other ways.