Adriane Tillman at #MEAction writes, "Long COVID is not a new phenomenon—there are millions of Americans who got sick with a virus & never recovered before the pandemic & developed ME/CFS. The only difference is that we are seeing this happen now in real time on a massive scale.”
https://twitter.com/ICT_magazine/status/1487790703715524612
"Advocacy groups for those with long COVID and ME/CFS want the NIH to include research in ME/CFS as part of the agency’s $1.15 billion RECOVER initiative, and Tillman writes that “ample research [already] exists on post-viral illness.” #pwME #LongCovid #MECFS
“And yet, we continue to see amnesia and inaction from the NIH when it comes to building off the post-viral knowledge that already exists. Researchers with little experience in long COVID and no experience before COVID-19 are directing NIH-funded initiatives; this means people...
"...who have been in the field for six months are grantees over researchers with three decades’ experience.”
Those researchers who have decades of experience dealing with post-infection symptoms “need to be at the forefront of the long COVID research agenda..."
Those researchers who have decades of experience dealing with post-infection symptoms “need to be at the forefront of the long COVID research agenda..."
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