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Endorsed by another Norwegian psychologist. What's happening??

When patients were assessed a mean of 60 days after onset of the first covid-19 symptoms, only 18 (12.6%) were completely free of any covid-19 related symptom, while 32% had one or two symptoms, and 55% had three or more. None of the patients had fever or any signs or symptoms of acute illness...

CNN: Oregon woman has battled coronavirus symptoms since March "There may well be a post-viral syndrome associated with Covid-19," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a news conference organized by the International AIDS Society. The group is...

Yes, I think what you're saying here is an important aspect. This is a bit off-thread but it was quite emotional to learn about my great grandmother who suffered from tuberculosis. She lived in a room in the attic to some relatives. They took care of her, but were of course scared of becoming...

NewStatesman - Phil Whitaker: For some sufferers, Covid-19 doesn't come with an end-by date - it just goes on and on As for #LongCovid sufferers like Xanthe and Paulo, it feels, intuitively, as though their immune response is at stalemate: neither clearing the virus nor being driven down the...

Hard to say if there could have been some ME patients among here, but interesting interview from University of Colorado with history professor Susan Kingsley Kent from April this year. Lessons from the 1918/1919 Influenza Pandemic SKK: The flu left survivors with a variety of mental symptoms...

Interesting question. Could it have coincided with an increase of people diagnosed with "neurasthenia"? A quick google search resulted into this article from May this year in Psychiatric Times The Spanish Flu Pandemic and Mental Health: A Historical Perspective In comparison to other aspects...

Question asked: Department of Health and Social Care 70531 To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NICE guidance on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis will be updated to remove graded exercise in response to the increasing numbers of patients with...

Good idea! I'll copy it

Retraction Watch: 77-year-old paper by controversial psychiatrist Hans Eysenck earn an expression of concern Suspicions about Eysenck, who died in 1997, surfaced in the early 1990s, if not before. At least 14 of his papers have been retracted so far — a total his biographer has said could well...

Question asked: Department of Health and Social Care 70531 To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NICE guidance on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis will be updated to remove graded exercise in response to the increasing numbers of patients with...

Oh dear :(

BMJ: Covid-19: The inside story of the RECOVERY trial “The UK has really delivered here,” says Martin Landray, deputy chief investigator of RECOVERY. “It involves hospitals from Truro to the Western Isles, Northern Ireland across to King’s Lynn. The patients have been fabulous: they were ill...

Spiegel International: Many Stay Sick After Recovering From Coronavirus Carmen Scheibenbogen, the head of the outpatient clinic for adult immunodeficiencies at Berlin's Charité University Hospital, is one of the few German experts on chronic fatigue syndrome. Many people with COVID-19 are...

Yesterday it was republished on NeurologyAdvisor https://www.neurologyadvisor.com/topics/general-neurology/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-viruses-and-the-innate-immune-system/

A women's magazine has an interview with Sara Emilie, a young mummy-influencer who's been suffering from ME since she was 15, but only recently been open about it on social media. Luckily she has improved some over the years and wonders if her pregnancies might be the reason for this. Assistant...

Moderator note: This post has been moved from this thread and following posts are a mix of moved posts and posts from a new thread. ____________________ BBC: Coronavirus: NHS England launches tool to aid long-term recovery "Your Covid Recovery" will be an online portal for people in England...

Nina E. Steinkopf with new blog post where she shares an e-response she submitted about this study to BMJ. Her response was rejected because of its length and because it overlapped with other responses already online. BMJ also informed her: “we are currently reviewing the original article in...

Trial by Error by David Tuller: Nudge for BMJ About Music Therapy; Letter to "Health Anxiety" Expert I have written two more letters and have posted them below. The first letter is a nudge to BMJ’s research integrity department, which missed a deadline this week for providing me with an update...