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Good to see they're not rushing into anything....

Until we can demonstrate conclusively that there are absolutely no Covid remnants in any patient who presents with persistent symptoms, "causal" studies such as this cannot rise above definitional white noise.

Oh good. Statistics and semantics conjoined in a single piece highlighting two confusing and contested diseases. What could go wrong?

"There is zero credible evidence that she ever had Lyme Disease (by her own admission, she tested negative based on established, mainstream CDC criteria), let alone a chronic manifestation that was alleviated in any way by multiple rounds of long-term antibiotics, which have been decisively...

I can appreciate this sentiment. But there may be rare or fringe cases that might not be considered as such if they are tested for - and found - more often. When my wife tested positive for her rare channelopathy gene she was only one of less than 100 in the entire world. Five years later and...

Perhaps an alternative co-thread might be common diseases with inadequate diagnostics that could be misdiagnosed as ME/CFS. :)

Babesiosis is considered rare. It can mimic ME/CFS. Ditto for B Miyamotoi, which is a relapsing fever and I believe is still considered rare. I second channelopathies.

But strains are a different species. When it comes to new strains, humans got a history with nudging nature.

Sometimes it is relevant. Sometimes accountability needs to matter. And the arrogance of it all can be terrifying.

Give me a medical discipline and I will give you a discipline that has demonstrated a willingness to use psychology as a get-out-of-jail card. Cardiology. Pediatrics. Infectious disease. Rheumatology. I've personally experience it in three of the four. It seems to me, however, the most...

Why qualify "muscle weakness" at all? Any qualifier here runs the risk of introducing a bias. It's like if I were to say "hillfolk-trained" neurologists, that qualifier may introduce a bias.

I wonder if this is the literal translation. If so, it's strikes me as oddly hostile and disparaging for a disinterested scientific paper. Is there even such a thing as "flabby muscle"?

Kiss my ass. We've decades of this sort of bullshit. History enough to show it results in little more than unrelenting sickness and despair for millions.

No, wrong question, imho. Fatigue is a sidebar, same as it is with the flu or cancer or MS. I would be loathe to qualify ME as a "fatigueing illness," no slight to Straus and company. God the CDC has a dark history in our circles. Focus on the package and PEM.

For sure. And it's not just pwME. It's LC and Lyme patients as well. There's history for you. It speaks to the democratization of medicine - the majority count more than the minority. We are literally talking millions of sick people here that are being kicked to the curbside, but our maelstrom...

There's a template for this speak. There's a history. And it's not like it's a dead language. It's invoked whenever it serves as a means. Well, in that sense, maybe it is like a dead language, Latin. Only this language seems familiar. Is familiar. In part maybe because it's not as old as...

They would also seem to provide an objective basis for NOT qualifying these patients as "recovered". Somebody please equip every medical researcher with a current dictionary.

A few years back I had a discussion with an IDSA heavyweight who had issued a paper claiming there was no Lyme in a particular southern state in the US. In the paper he noted many state residents who had tested positive for Lyme with the vaunted CDC 2T, and his position was those must have been...

Interesting choice of references (reference material) for the workshop. :)

There should be laws against gaslighting. At the very least, there should be a slew of required ethics courses in medical school which explain in screeching detail the harm levied by those who gaslight. These courses should be mandatory for any psych wannabees - much in the same way courses...