“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Winston Churchill The times they are a-changing. The pandemic has altered the way we work and live, given a huge boost to telemedicine, practically birthed a new research field (post-infectious diseases), underscored...
They were the “original gangster” (OG) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). At one point in time, enteroviruses were pretty much “it” in ME/CFS. Indeed, the ME/CFS outbreaks from the 1930s to 1960s resembled nothing so much as atypical...
Given the worsening that some people report after getting the coronavirus vaccine, Brendan asks if there is a better, safer way to get vaccinated. The choice has been a difficult one: protect oneself from a potentially dangerous virus but risk a relapse by getting...
This is the beginning of a series of blogs that will attempt to keep up on long-COVID research and its possible applications to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), dysautonomia, fibromyalgia (FM), and related diseases. These blogs are being done with the recognition...
(After over 30 years in science policy, Michael Sieverts never dreamed he’d be the one in a study, but there he was, roughly 8 months after coming down with long COVID, in Avindra Nath’s neurological long COVID study. Thanks to Michael for sharing his...
There has been a lot of talk about how the symptoms of the PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection) patients – hereafter referred to as long-COVID patients – are similar to people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but, until now, no studies...
