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I'm so glad to hear this @lunarainbows <3

They referred to her as a "veteran GP", I think that just means she's been a GP for a long time.

I'm finding it difficult to not just react like "yes, you CAN cope with a few weeks isolation. I've coped with it for two years. And you have the energy to phone friends and do whatever you want to at home. Stop whining and deal with it." But I know that's not really a fair or kind reaction...

Oh dear. But I guess even a stopped clock can be right sometimes? I don't care about the author's credentials, only about the quality of the science in this particular article. Which might be dubious, I don't know.

https://www.evolutamente.it/covid-19-pneumonia-inflammasomes-the-melatonin-connection/?fbclid=IwAR1xloTBoQ30ciHh2iuoY1VRgYwArdMNPg1qSHGB3QhW7YhbQBwfLYhdykw

The Hickie et al paper about CFS after certain viruses says: "The syndrome was predicted largely by the severity of the acute illness"

The study that Lucibee linked isn't as far as I can tell clear on whether the patients studied had been critically ill, but it sounds like they were all treated in hospital.

This is the SARS study that was referred to in the Canary article that I shared above. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12594312 Note that this was only looking at patients who had been admitted to intensive care during infection with SARS. The majority of people infected with COVID-19...

On the plus side, there are lots of people who have recovered from COVID (2700 in Italy), and I'd like to think that we'd have heard by now if a significant number of people were developing CFS or similar after the infection. I hope???

@Jonathan Edwards (sorry to bother you again) bearing in mind the apparently high rate of some kind of fatigue syndrome in SARS survivors, do you think it's likely that a worryingly high proportion of COVID-19 survivors could develop ME/CFS?

Why do you think that's unlikely?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/inews.co.uk/news/coronavirus-survivors-could-sustain-lung-damage-that-takes-15-years-to-recover-2451310%3famp

Merged thread on lung damage https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/even-those-who-recover-from-corona-can-be-left-gasping-for-breath-afterwards

OK, thanks for explaining.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28158479/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/health-experts-criticise-nhs-advice-to-take-ibuprofen-for-covid-19

Okay, thanks Jonathan. So would that mean that people taking "immune boosting supplements" could actually be at more risk of getting a lung hypersensitivity response?

I've made a new thread for specifically discussing the possibility of post-COVID fatigue and/or ME: https://www.s4me.info/threads/possibility-of-me-or-pvfs-after-covid-19.14074/

I thought we could do with a separate thread to discuss this. I would be extremely grateful if any mods are able to copy over the relevant posts from the main coronavirus thread. Don't worry if you don't have spare energy to do that though. The following article summarises the concern, and...

A thread for people who want to ask questions about how the immune system works. My question is this: we hear people saying things like "I have a strong immune system, I don't get ill often", or "my husband and I both got the virus but my symptoms are worse because my immune system is weaker...