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I think this analogy works: If we imagine a person walking down a steepening slope; at some point they are caused to fall and tumble for some distance out of control. That they suddenly 'flew' into the air would be for most of us a hugely disturbing view and we inevitably look for immediate...

PVF is a convenient label to put on a frequently observed occurrence - that some people following some infections (including bacterial, fungal ?) experience unusual levels of fatigue. Here we have the same correlation/causation problem as with CFS - does the pathology causing the fatigue result...

Yes "correlation is not causation" - if we take 100 post covid19 patients who are experiencing continued symptoms, and we accept that a number of such patients will eventually regain good health without any intervention, then it is inevitable that for a percentage of those patients recovery...

It may be at the top end of reasoned estimates but 250k for a 67 million population does not rely on the extreme rates proposed pscy focussed studies e.g https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-3-19 One of the oddities of ME/CFS research is that wholly arbitrary age...

The notion of continuous or recurrent infection as foundational and causative (i.e the unique biological event from which all subsequent symptomology proceeds) has arguably provided the greatest misdirection in biological ME research (psych research of course has provided an entire encyclopaedia...