I've been sent the text below, which is an extract from a proposed article that didn't make it to publication.
The writer asked me to share it.
For American readers: categories like Motor Neuron Disease include things like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease.
"There is growing concern among clinicians and researchers that COVID-19 infection may be contributing to a striking rise in rare but serious neuromuscular conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) among younger adults.
While these disorders are typically regarded as genetic or idiopathic, mounting evidence suggests that viral infections...
I've been watching soccer players here get ACL injuries with painful regularity over the last five years.
I've had two ACL injuries myself, and some times of year I develop a painful ache just below and to the side of my knee that feels like a small ball of pure pain.
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So whenever I hear about someone going through this, I feel a strong personal empathy.
I know what it's going to be like for them to try to sleep tonight, and how they'll feel when they try to roll over.
You might think that public health bodies and institutions and their leaders know what they're talking about, but, sadly, they often just regurgitate garbage fake science that has no actual basis in fact, but sometimes it's more sinister than that.
Here's an example, shared a couple of weeks ago by the American Society of Microbiology.
It includes a claim (a lie, actually, but we'll come to that) that you might have seen repeated a lot during the last few years.
The *lie* that "80% of all infectious diseases are passed by human contact, direct or indirect".
I'm slowly working my way through the thousands of conditions covered by the uk hospital episodes data.
Quite a few people have been asking me about POTS and Dysautonomia.
Well...
Where shall we start.
Autonomic nervous systems in teenagers?
👆That one was a catch all code covering disorders with overlapping sympathetic and parasympathetic dysfunction, post-viral or inflammatory dysautonomia, autonomic failure associated with another systemic disease, mixed or multi-system dysautonomia.