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“Missed risk: Long COVID threat extends far beyond pandemic” missoulian.com/news/local/mis…

“Teasdale’s post-COVID symptoms match a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS.”

"In January, the journal Infection Control Today compiled other research forecasting more than 8 million Americans would develop long COVID. That’s at least three times the number of people currently diagnosed with ME/CFS (pre-COVID). The journal quoted #MEACTION editor...

Adriane Tilman feeling unsurprised.

"Long COVID is not a new phenomenon — there are millions of Americans who got sick with a virus and never recovered before the pandemic, and developed ME/CFS,” Tilman told ICT. “The only difference is that we are seeing this happen now in...

real time on a massive scale.”

"That scale may envelop the ME/CFS community itself. In the same article, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz said that in the past cases of ME/CFS developed out of a post-infectious illness: “(The)

only difference here is that we know what virus is driving it in large numbers of persons.”

"The ME/CFS community started raising alarms about the potential for chronic fatigue after-effects in May 2020 — two months after pandemic lockdowns started in the United States. They..

already had decades of research linking viral infections with the secondary health impacts."

"PEM reactions worry Teasdale most when he hears about others trying to shake off long COVID."