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Thread on COFFI here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/the-international-collaborative-on-fatigue-following-infection-coffi-2018-katz-et-al.2013/

The paper is a couple of weeks old, but I don't think it has been shared on the forum yet? I found it via the website to COFFI (Collaborative On Fatigue Following Infection) shared in a Twitter thread listing its members:

Abstract Fatigue is a dominant feature of both acute and convalescent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (sometimes termed “long-COVID”), with up to 46% of patients reporting fatigue that lasts from weeks to months. The investigators of the international Collaborative on Fatigue Following...

Quotes: This month marks the seventh anniversary of Virology Blog’s publication of my 15,000-word investigation of the egregiously flawed and fraudulent piece of crap known as the PACE trial. ... Pursuing this project, exposing fallacious scientific reasoning, and puncturing the egos of these...

Nina E. Steinkopf and Jørn Tore Haugen has written a response in the newspaper Aftenposten. It has also been translated to English and published on Steinkopf's blog. quote: It is disconcerting that the authors believe Wyller’s stress hypothesis is correct, while the world’s largest health...

Rolf Rønning, Professor Emeritus at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences has a response today to the article in Morgenbladet. The opinion piece is behind paywall, so here's a summary: He says the article about an ME seminar with guards and police on stand-by fits into a well-directed...

I think you meant to post the question on the thread with the videos from the latest RME conference, and refer to Fluge's talk? I haven't watch it all yet. This article might be of interest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62157-x ETA: Abstract: The etiology and pathogenesis of...

A rare Long Covid article from Norway where research director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Signe Flottorp, actually seems to acknowledge the phenomenon. She's still sticking to a biopsychosocial approach though and says there's no need to test for antibodies for Covid-19 because...

Thank you! Not the first time I've done this. Good to hear I'm not the only one.

New article from TV2. Politician Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen is chair of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services in the Norwegian Parliament and is asking how the Minister of Health is going to follow up the research results from TjenestenogMEg which has shown that ME patients are failed by...

I can only contribute with hearsay, but as far as I understand the "throwing chair" thing is from the same incident as when Crawley got heckled during a lecture in Oslo for several years ago, and which she referred to as evidence of harassment in the PACE tribunal. The person who heckled had to...

Here is a google translated quote about why they thought they needed security: In the past, she has experienced that activists have tried to sabotage by shouting through speeches, or have become aggressive and "thrown chairs". She says they contacted the security and central service at the...

Psychology professor Silje Reme is behind the qualitative study on Lightning Process from some years ago from UK and she is involved in the ongoing study on LP in Norway with LP coach Live Landmark. Reme is one of the leaders of MindBodyLab, a research group doing research on the "complex...

The newspaper Morgenbladet has a paywalled article today about a recent ME seminar in Oslo. The title is: Seminar for ME researchers required security and police on standby: - They are trying to get us The article begins with psychology professor and the organiser for the seminar Silje Endresen...

I read is as non-physical violence

TV2 has asked ME patients to send in pictures for the article, so this is how ME is illustrated. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

New ME article from TV2: Researcher Anne Kielland calls the treatment of ME patients symbolic violence and say they are horrified by the results of their study into how ME patients are met in the health care system. Professor Emeritus Kristian Sommerfelt is not surprised by the findings and...

TV2 had a segment on the news tonight and an article on their website about ME sufferer Christine Moen who developed severe ME after mononucleosis. She was badly treated by the health care system as ME patient. In 2019 she got diagnosed with breast cancer and said when she received treatment...

Medscape Will Fatalism Kill the Needed Response to Long COVID? Commentary by David Putrino, PhD quotes: Given the enormous numbers of people who develop long COVID symptoms following acute infection, and the general air of fatalism that we are observing toward long-term public health policy to...

Wisconsin Public Radio "Medically maligned Chronic Fatigue Syndrome holds clues to long Covid" Great 20-minute interview with Dr. David Kaufman and Jamie Seltzer with a Q&A session. Description: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a complex chronic illness that has...