News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

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NelliePledge said:
NYD-N? Please spell out this acronym I’ve never heard of it.
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'Not Yet Diagnosed, Nervous'. Originally used as a code by doctors to describe symptoms of shellshock.


Edit: in a pejorative way. If there were no physical wounds, it was often dismissed and veterans were not entitled to the recognition and pensions they'd have got if they'd been injured by a bomb or bullet.
 
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chrisb said:
But the officers would be diagnosed with neurasthenia. And we have been told by eminent authority that effort syndrome was merely a form of neurasthenia. And the work of those studying effort syndrome was promoted as having been about PVFS or CFS.
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It is deeply chilling to look back on the calculated cruelty inflicted on WWI soldiers when society decided it couldn't afford for so many to be ill or disabled – so it gaslighted them, as well as physically torturing them with 'therapies' – and what happened when society decided it couldn't afford to support people with a range of chronic illnesses.

I supposed we should be grateful that modern attitudes are much more sympathetic, so at least we're not shot as cowards.
 
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Was just about to post that! Good interview. Straight on the topic of ME. Worth watching.

It's getting really bizarre to have this acknowledgement and talking about the upcoming NHS service without mentioning the fact that as far as the NHS is concerned, ME is a trivial psychological condition of temporary inconvenience that anyone can simply get over with happy thoughts and exercise. Even though Dr Jarvis was pretty spot on in how she described PEM, though without naming it. And advised pacing, which the NHS technically advises against as driving the primary delusion.

But I think the cat's out of the bag and is not going back in. There will be an adjustment going from "it's all your head" to "well, oops, let's move on, then" but there is no wind left in the lie that ME is a psychological condition. And then there's the doctors and nurses. Bound to be a few former strong skeptics in there. The narrative of a small vocal minority of borderline terrorists / antivaxxer-like is about to get a bit more complicated.
 
Sick for over 100 days, COVID-19 patients want more help to cope with disease's 'long-haul' effects

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent...pe-with-disease-s-long-haul-effects-1.5647886

Dr. Margaret Herridge said looking at COVID-19 "across the spectrum" of patients is a key part of her new research: the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CANCOV). It is the first study in Canada to assess health outcomes for COVID-19 patients over a one-year period.

Led by Herridge and her co-lead Dr. Angela Cheung, more than 100 investigators across the country aim to evaluate 2,000 COVID-19 survivors and their family caregivers, testing things like their ability to carry out daily activities, cognitive capabilities and mental health.
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Participants will range from people who were sick but never hospitalized, to those who became critically ill in ICU, said Herridge, a critical care physician with the University Health Network in Toronto.

Since it first emerged late last year, the understanding of COVID-19 has shifted from a respiratory illness to one that attacks multiple organs, with some theories suggesting it is an illness of the blood vessels or can prompt an over-reaction from the immune system.
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Bit silly that Moreau's research proposal doesn't get funded but whatever, I guess we can chalk up this silliness under "medical research" things.
 
Dolphin said:
Is this common knowledge? I don't recall hearing about it before.
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@ScottTriGuy mentioned it a while ago, not really made public.

The proposal rated well but the government only funded the top 1%, I think, and it just came short. There should have been exceptions for targeted programs but having a strategy based on meeting specific needs and medical research are apparently mutually exclusive concepts, gotta be maximum random.
 
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