Newswise — (New York, NY – August 13, 2025) – Mount Sinai has launched the country’s first clinical manual for treating infection-associated chronic illnesses (IACIs). This comprehensive guide, prepared by the Cohen Center for Recovery From Complex Chronic Illnesses, part of the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, will help clinicians across the world better diagnose and care for patients with conditions such as long COVID, long Lyme disease/Lyme+, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and others.
“400 million people around the world have experienced long COVID, not to mention the millions of people living with ME/CFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness, and other IACIs—and more people are getting sick every day,” says David Putrino, PhD, the Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center. “Our clinic can only take on around 700 new patients a year, so clearly there’s a huge discrepancy there. Releasing this manual is a way for us not only to continue setting the standard of care, but also to help ensure that any clinician can have the tools and knowledge they need in order to adopt our practices and provide high-quality, evidence-informed practice for people with IACIs all over the world.”
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