Article in Guardian: I rested my way to recovery from ‘long-haul Covid’. I urge others to do the same | Fiona Lowenstein

My n = 1 which I have posted here before, so I won't detail it was this:

PVFS after assumed glandular fever age 28, 6 months bed rest, complete recovery.

PVFS after gut infection age 40, very little rest, pushed myself to keep going, ME still ongoing after over 30 years.

This doesn't prove anything, but I very much wish I had been able to rest properly second time around. Maybe I would still have ME, or maybe that would have been a few months PVFS too.

I think there is some ancedotal evidence of rest helping in reducing the chances of PVFS becoming prolonged for some people, but it's hard to do a prospective study.