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The West German public-service TV broadcaster ZDF have a six minute news segment on Covid-19 and ME with Michael Stingl, the neurologist who tweeted this.

Just adding what they say in connection to ME: There have been attempts in the media to link long COVID with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)19 or post-viral fatigue; however, this linkage has the potential to leave persistent symptoms uninvestigated and may be...

Still misses the point.

The debate about this study continues in the local newspaper to the city of the university, NTNU, who will conduct the study. This time a professor emeritus (NTNU) with no previous knowledge about ME shares his thoughts and support to the study. His understanding of Lightning Process is that is...

Nina E. Steinkopf has written an opinion piece in the Journal for the Norwegian Psychologist Association about NICE's guideline draft appealing to health authorities in Norway to keep up with new knowledge and development in the ME field. Bør legge utdaterte råd på hylla google translation...

And Avindra Nath in NIH. From the Medscape article Long Covid Cases Rise as Stigma of Chronic Fatigue Taunts (Jan. 2021): Unlike COVID-19 long haulers, however, many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome go at least a year with these symptoms before receiving a diagnosis, according to a...

Wyller is co-author. Here's from my notes from attending a lecture by him in 2019: He believes fatigue is fatigue. It makes no sense to try splitting the long lasting fatigues into a lot of sub groups based on diagnoses. He prefers simple diagnostic criteria and criticises the Canadian...

A perspective I had not thought of:

UNDARK - When Children's Covid-19 Symptoms Won't Go Away Contains interviews with several patients and experts, including Amy Proal: While she cautions that researchers simply cannot know whether the long-haulers will become life-longers, “it’s very unlikely,” she says, that SARS-CoV-2 would...

Athena Akrami is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center, UCL, London from her twitter bio. ETA: Gerada replied

The Science Bit by Brian Hughes - Beware the COVID-sceptic doctors We can all say something bizarre if we want to. Only some of us, however, are ever given a high-profile platform from which to publish it to the world. Self-belief in one’s own omnicompetence is a common affliction, especially...

STAT News Denied Treatment, some Covid long-haulers could become lifelong-haulers For most long-haulers, the illness is neither fatal nor curable. Their symptoms, like Michael’s, can resemble chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis with crushing exhaustion, migraines, disrupted...

US News Why Does 'Mono' Sometimes Turn Into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? The researchers discovered that people who developed ME/CFS had more physical symptoms and immune irregularities at baseline. The participants did not start with more psychological symptoms, such as stress, depression...

ETA: Then Fauci goes on to say: People get upset when you say that. I'm not saying that it is myalgic encephalitis (sic), but the constellation of symptoms that are unexplainable are quite similar. And then he goes on to talk about how to proceed with research

it says 2 000 NOK for both days and 400 NOK for the evening programme Towards the end here: https://www.mekonferansestryn.no/program

This is a private initiative from a family who has previously organised two large conferences in Stryn, Norway. They also do fundraising for biomedical research into ME. All money goes to Fluge, Mella and their team at Haukeland University Hospital. (more about their fundraising in English...