As well as Mother’s Day, yesterday was long COVID Awareness Day.
During the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the term ‘long COVID’ first emerged, Dr Anthony Komaroff raised a crucial question in an article: “Will some people who get COVID-19 subsequently develop ME/CFS?” He further stated, “After all, many people with ME/CFS say that their illness began with some kind of infection: a virus, a flu, a bad cold.”
A recent study found that COVID-19 related ICD codes were strongly associated with later ME/CFS diagnosis. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yc74r732
Read our 2024 article discussing the overlap between ME/CFS and long COVID: https://tinyurl.com/bdez5a3
Read about an ME Research UK-funded study finding that immunoglobulins from the blood of people with post-infectious ME/CFS caused disruption to the mitochondria of the healthy endothelial cells: https://tinyurl.com/3sshycma
