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Some Long-COVID Cases Have Met ME/CFS Diagnosis, But That May Solve Nothing
The sad thing is how shockingly little we know about myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
Roughly of myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) of unknown causes occurred in the 20th Century. One such instance was in 1955 in the U.K. Royal Free Hospital, where 255 medical workers were .
This event , M.A., M.D., to coin the term ME, which the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized as an official medical condition by 1969. In early 2000, ME was viewed as synonymous with CFS, so ME/CFS is now used to describe this condition.
A common trigger of ME/CFS is viral infections, of which Covid-19 comes into mind. While the of Covid-19 is approximately 98%, 10–30% of survivors will develop long-COVID, a chronic post-viral syndrome that can last up to . Long-COVID is not predicted by initial disease severity or health status, so can leave previously healthy individuals disabled for the long-term.
Long-COVID gained widespread attention among social support groups and later on among the experts. At that time…
