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Most or all of the comments have now been posted underneath. Previously, none mentioning ME or CFS had been posted.

(Not important at all) From a medical Twitter chat today on the after effects of covid-19: Groan. He is a retired doctor from Scotland

Press release: RESEARCHERS SAY COVID-19 WILL LEAD TO SURGE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS, ME SUFFERERS SPEAK OUT. https://www.meaction.net/2020/05/10/researchers-say-covid-19-will-lead-to-surge-in-chronic-illness-me-sufferers-speak-out Researchers Expect COVID-19 will Cause Surge of Chronic Illness...

Disappointing that CBT and GET recommended near the end. If they can be removed from the next NICE guidelines, they should probably be mentioned fewer times in general articles.

For what it is worth: Individualized environments, individual cures: An examination of Lyme disease activism in Virginia Brent Z Kaup, Matthew Abel, Amanda Sikirica First Published May 8, 2020 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620923593 Article information

https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/396223

I saw this posted somewhere. https://irishmed.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/the-coronavirus-crisis-8-post-cv-illness

To get something to trend on Twitter, ideally you want something that is rarely otherwise used. I recall that #MEAwarenessDay trended another year.

Correction: the link above is to their 2019 ME awareness week article and press release I think this is mixing up medical care with research funds.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399919306555 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110133

https://medwinpublishers.com/JQHE/JQHE16000159.pdf

Earlier paper on this: Chronic fatigue syndrome from vagus nerve infection: A psychoneuroimmunological hypothesis Michael B. VanElzakker ⇑ Tufts University Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Neuroscience, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA...

Full Text: https://www.cancercasereports.com/article_html.php?did=7228&issueno=0

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Perhaps, but people can hold odd ideas about ME also. Post infectious syndrome and post viral syndrome are pretty neutral terms. An infectious doctor should probably know post viral fatigue syndrome and post viral syndrome represent similar entities.

We can't be sure, but he was being pretty definite when he was saying the most unhelpful thing suggested to him was that he had a "post viral fatigue syndrome".

My main GP in the 1990s at one time thought I was not ill enough to have ME and then when I deteriorated was too ill to have it