Many Long COVID scientists fail to meaningfully draw on the insights of patient-researchers. In our Comment for
@TheLancetInfDis, we propose a solution: make all Long COVID papers undergo pre-publication patient review. 1/ Patient expertise is always essential to research on a disease, and especially so when the disease at hand primarily affects women and/or marginalised populations, is stigmatised, and is underfunded and thus insufficiently understood. 2/