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Split from the News from France thread The official guidelines for post-covid syndrome have been posted by the Haute Autorité de la Santé. When there are symptoms without clear organic explanation, doctors should diagnose the patient as having a "functional disorder", caused by personality or...

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02683-4

In fact I read somewhere that most of the time we naturally breathe with one nostril, without even noticing. And that we regularly switch to one another. Found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle

Helen Payne, nothing to hope from her. We've talked about one of her videos here. That's one of the dumbest and unevidenced thing I've ever watched. She says about the MUS patients "they just keep going back to the GP, every day, every single day" and that tey can get better with "one nostril...

I leave that to your appreciation

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2721 (Thanks to @JohnTheJack)

I'm a consultant in infectious diseases. 'Long Covid' is anything but a mild illness Hummmm, it doesn't work for "post viral-fatigue" either... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/27/consultant-infectious-diseases-long-covid-not-mild-illness-seriously-debilitated-new-clinics

I'd like to see any evidence supporting these claims, and obviously there can't be any, this is laughable and insulting, as it directly questions patients' integrity. This only prooves that she is a person with a deep contempt for patients and an absolute lack of understnading of what science...

Trial by Error: FDA Approves Web-CBT for IBS; GET/CBT as Tomorrow’s “Rubbish” https://www.virology.ws/2020/12/06/trial-by-error-fda-approves-cbt-for-ibs-get-cbt-as-tomorrows-rubbish/

Great work, thank you to the three authors.

What an ideal time to publish this paper... :rofl:

Couldn't agree more.

I hope you're right, but I remain to be convinced. We'll know in a few weeks I guess.

At the demand of their hierarchy Shools have been closed for one week and a half so it may have influenced te very recent numbers.

Lockdown in France for the next 4 weeks. But schools remain open...

The situation is not good here. With record 42,000 new cases, France extends Covid curfew to cover 46 million people https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201022-france-extends-covid-curfew-to-cover-46-million-people

But they nonetheless state in the conclusion that their findings suggest FND is be due to conscious motor preparation. They have no finding, no difference between groups, nada.

Strength Does Not Beat Viruses, Ed Yong, The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/trump-strength-coronavirus/616682/